On Sun, Jan 28, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Owen Taylor wrote:
Hi desktop-list and others,
There was a lot of interest around Atomic Workstation at DevConf.cz - there
were three talks specifically about Atomic Workstation (*), in addition to
quite a few related talks.
We should try to catch some of this momentum and figure out how to move the
project forward. My thought is that it would be useful to set up a regular
IRC meeting, probably every two weeks - more or less an Atomic Workstation
SIG.
I'll likely join this meeting most of the time, but I'm not sure I can commit to
being part of
the SIG officially - anyways @jlebon knows the ostree/rpm-ostree side well. I think
it'd be best if I keep my focus on Atomic Host primarily as well as handling
the IoT/embedded cases.
But obviously I use this today and am quite invested in seeing it succeed;
I'll be fixing bugs regardless ;)
Also: Jan Pazdziora: Minimizing workstation installation -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWoFpOoA-tE
And I'd really recommend that anyone interested in all of this to try
investing in containerizing their desktop *first*. I know a ton
of people are interested in the transaction updates from rpm-ostree; and
yes it's awesome, but in itself it's a huge change.
Let me put it this way; sure, you can:
`rpm-ostree install fedpkg gcc-c++ golang cargo`.
But you're not doing "Atomic Workstation" then. (And yes, I really
do use fedpkg from a container, it mostly works because the lack
of user namespaces means fedpkg build picks up kerberos from my
host's uid)
Also of course, you can `oc cluster up` on yum-managed hosts just
as easily. And if OpenShift fits your use case, do that *first* too.
Also Colin Walters: Hybrid image/package OS updates with rpm-ostree -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWoFpOoA-tE
(And after watching this a bit I think you can skip to ~6:47 or so if you
want to get to the point more quickly)
Let me say again just to emphasize; try containerizing your desktop first!