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 October 26, 2024 -  Milano, IT

Fedora CoreOS on Hetzner Dedicated server

 October 19, 2023

Over the last few years, I’ve moved many of my systems to Immutable versions of Fedora. One of the last systems still missing was my Hetzner Dedicated server. The blocking part for me was that Hetzner is not offering any Fedora or Immutable options.

However, Hetzner provides the Rescue System, which is a Debian system, so it is possible to leverage it!

After rebooting in Rescue mode: Go to Hetzner Robot. Select the proper server. Go to the “Rescue” tab. Click “Activate rescue system” after properly selecting the Public Key and keyboard layout. You can now reboot the machine, and after it boots back up, you can log in to the Rescue System.

Fedora Sericea and Sway Spin released!

 April 18, 2023

With Fedora 38 officially released, Sericea and Sway Spin have also been officially released!

In the last month, I’ve been working on those variants’ presence on the Fedora website. Now both variants have their page on the Fedora Website respectively at Sericea and Sway Spin.

If you have any questions, reach the Sway SIG in the following ways:

• Sway SIG mailing list.
• Sway SIG Matrix channel.

I hope many of you will find these valuable improvements to Fedora as much as I do.

Fedora Sericea and Sway Spin beta

 March 24, 2023

The Fedora Project released Fedora 38 beta images. The Fedora Sway Spin and the Fedora Sericea ones are in the long list of released images!

This is a critical point in the release of those Fedora artifacts based on Sway since it is the first time it has been possible to test them for the wider public. Although the Fedora Project has been creating Sway artifacts for a couple of months, those were based on Rawhide, which is “a not always stable” version of Fedora, since it tracks far in the future (4-10 months) versions of Fedora.

Fedora Sway artifacts approved by FESCo

 January 4, 2023

Back in August, I asked for suggestions for a name for an os-tree-based Fedora version with Sway. Although I’ve not posted anything more on the topic, the work went forward.

We have asked Fedora Council to approve the naming, to FESCo for the approval for the change to Fedora, and to RelEng support to merge our work in the Fedora workstream.

A couple of weeks ago, the Fedora Council approved the request to create a “traditional” spin called “Fedora Sway spin” as well as an os-tree spin called “Fedora Sericea”.

Fedora Sway OSTree Spin name

 August 12, 2022

The Fedora Sway SIG is working to create an immutable version of the Sway Spin (also work in progress) using OSTree.

Those immutable spins of Fedora are becoming more common following Silverblue and Kinoite’s success.

As it often happens, one of the most challenging things to do in creating something is to come up with clever names. This task is made even more complex by the relatively small amount of people active in this conversation. For this reason, during the last SIG meeting, it was decided to socialize this decision so that more people could suggest their ideas.

My immutable Fedora

 April 29, 2021

For many years now, I’ve been using immutable versions of Fedora. I remember that I started to play with immutable Fedora back in 2015 when Fedora Atomic was new. I liked the idea since the first time I’ve read about it, but in the beginning, I did not spend too much time making it work on my setup because it seemed a little bit too complex. At DevConf.cz 2016, I met Patrick Uiterwijk, who was running his spin of Fedora Atomic. We had a long chat on it, and he explained to me his workflow. Soon after, I started to use an immutable version of Fedora on my personal laptop, but I was not daring to use it on my work laptop. When I left Red Hat at the end of 2017, my personal laptop became my only laptop for a little while, and the immutable Fedora became my only OS. Since then, I’ve been using only immutable Fedora on my computers. In June 2020, I took the time to clean up my build process and files, and I moved all the needed bits to a new git repo that is now openly available and can be found here.