Fedora 37 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
It's been kind of a wild ride getting the Talos II and the Blackbird upgraded to Fedora 37, but we're there, so it's finally time for a mini-review to summarize the current state. As I always like to remind folks, Fedora was one of the first mainstream distributions to support POWER9 out of the box, it's still one of the top distributions OpenPOWER denizens use and its position closest to the bleeding, ragged edge is where we see problems emerge first and get fixed (hopefully) before they move further downstream. That's why it's worth caring about it even if you yourself don't run it.
Another important reminder is both my 'Bird and T2 are configured to come up in a text boot instead of gdm and I start GNOME (Blackbird) or KDE (T2) manually from there. I still test GNOME on both systems, but I've pretty much entirely migrated over to KDE Plasma on the T2, so I'll talk about both the GNOME and KDE experience in this and future mini-reviews. I strongly recommend a non-graphical boot as a recovery mechanism in case your graphics card gets whacked by something or other. On Fedora this is easily done by ensuring the symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target points to /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.