On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 03:31:00PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora_Onyx
== Detailed Description ==
Fedora Onyx is an immutable desktop operating system, featuring the
Budgie Desktop environment. Fedora Onyx leverages the same
foundational technologies as other Fedora immutable variants such as
Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Fedora Sericea (flatpak,
rpm-ostree, podman, toolbx). Fedora Onyx is built for people that are
attracted to / find value in the Fedora computing platform and Budgie
Desktop environment, but need the robust immutability and atomic
capabilities that rpm-ostree provides, which are not be offered
through traditional Fedora spins (e.g. Fedora Budgie Spin).
Original change proposal for Fedora Budgie Spin: [[Changes/FedoraBudgie]]
I assume that this proposal will be accepted; the following is not
about blocking this proposal. But I wanted to ask a wider question:
is there some way to avoid having a separate immutable spin for each
and every desktop? The desktop is maybe a 100MB out of the whole distro,
and everything else is the same between the spins. For a package-based
install, a user would could just the generic variant and then configure
their account to use a different graphical shell. But here we need a
place on the download page, and in the docs, and we build ISO images,
run QA, etc., so there is a noticable cost to each new deliverable.
Zbyszek