Bluefin LTS (Alpha)

Achillobator giganticus

Larger, more lethal Bluefin. bluefin:lts prototype built on CentOS Stream10.

Purpose and Status

This is not a 1:1 recreation, it's a minimal product, see below for more information:

Installation and Caveats

1. Snag the ISO: download.projectbluefin.io/achillobator.iso
2. On first boot, install flatpaks: ujust install-system-flatpaks
3. Automatic updates aren't working, you need to: sudo bootc upgrade by hand for now.

Incoming anaconda PR for the flatpaks, also:

• Do not rebase to this from an existing Fedora image, ain't no one testing that. Also the filesystems are going to be different, etc. We recommend a VM for now
• Some packages are missing until they get added to the EPEL10 repos.
  • Developer tools are included, -dx split will come later
  • No nvidia builds until Nvidia publishes EL10 drivers
• The URL will change in the future, this is a temporary image, eventually will be pushed to ublue-os/bluefin:lts, but not any time soon.
• No akmods or other hwe has been added

Rationale

With most of my user facing life being in my browser and flatpak, a slower cadenced OS has a proven use case. With bootc being a critical piece of RHEL image mode, it means that stack in CentOS will be well maintained. And with the flexibility of the container model, we can source content from anywhere. This is a spike to see if it's worth adding this as a bluefin:lts branch, or worse case, a starting point for someone who wants to grow a community around this use case.

• GNOME47 will be shipping, we have builds for our stuff already
• 6.12 LTS kernel covers Framework's current laptops, we can source newer kernels for different tags later, but this should be great for 2025.
• Is there going to be a reliable GNOME COPR for El10?

Building

To build locally and then spit out a VM:

just build
just build-iso ghcr.io/centos-workstation/achillobator:latest

qcow2 file is written to the output/ directory. Username and password are centos/centos

Current Ideas

• hyperscale sig provides newer kernels, we don't need to stay old old.
• EPEL will fill in lots of stuff
• Long lived and boring, we expect even less maintenance than Fedora-based Bluefin

Other Examples

• HeliumOS
• Valentin Rothberg - fedora-bootc-workstation