CentOS's November 2023 Newsletter and Fedora Magazine on ‘rpm-ostree search’
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CentOS ☛ CentOS's November 2023 Newsletter
November 2023 Newsletter CentOS Connect will be held February 1-2 in Brussels, right before FOSDEM. Join us for two days of presentations and meetups. The CFP for both presentations and meetups is now open. The Distributions Devroom will happen again at FOSDEM. CentOS is part of the organizing team. The CFP is open.
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Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora Magazine: Searching for packages with ‘rpm-ostree search’
This article descibes how to find an application to add to your ostree based system (such as Silverblue and Kinoite) using rpm-ostree.
One of the main benefits of the Fedora ostree-based systems is the immutability of the system. Not only is the image read-only, it’s also pre-built on the Fedora servers. Thus, updating a running system downloads the update deltas (that is, only the differences) and patches the system. This makes the many installations identical by default.
A pre-built image will be good enough for most people, since users are normally encouraged to use both flatpaks for applications and toolbox for development tasks. But what if the specific application doesn’t fit this and the user requires installing applications on the host system?