verms OS

My very own Linux "distro". Based on Fedora Silverblue but featuring:

• hardware acceleration for AMD and NVIDIA (on the nvidia branch) from RPMFusion
• Flathub instead of Fedora Flatpaks
• patent-encumbered codecs
• my system configuration and favorite packages (virt-manager, kitty, etc.)
• bug fixes that are still pending upstream

Installation

This is probably only useful if you're me.

By rebasing

Install Fedora Silverblue 42 first. Then run

bootc switch ghcr.io/averms/verms-os:latest

Then reboot.

Ab initio

Build an ISO for interactive installation on bare metal by doing ./go.sh build-iso. Then flash it onto a USB drive and you're off to the races. This is my preferred method of installation.

If you would like to build a qcow2 image for running under virtualization, type ./go.sh build-qcow2.

References

While the upstream bootc documentation and Fedora bootable containers docs were my primary aids in building this, I also learned a lot from reading the code of the following projects:

• https://github.com/fedora-sysexts/fedora
• https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin-lts
• https://github.com/ublue-os/main
• https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/examples