Hi there! 👋 I am a Linux 🐧 system and security engineer interested in safe programming languages 🦀 and container focused operating systems 📦.
I am currently a member of the CoreOS team at Red Hat, working on Fedora CoreOS and Red Hat CoreOS.
CoreOS systems are all about running containers at scale with Kubernetes distributions (OpenShift, OKD, Typhoon) or on a single server with podman and quadlet.
See talks about Fedora CoreOS and CentOS Stream CoreOS.
Fedora Kinoite is a container focused desktop operating system featuring the KDE Plasma desktop and based on rpm-ostree, podman and Flatpak. Fedora Kinoite is a close sibling of Fedora Silverblue, which is based on the same core technologies and features the GNOME desktop. Fedora Kinoite is available as part of the Fedora Project (first released with Fedora 35). I am a maintainer for those Fedora variants.
Those Fedora variants are also the base for the Universal Blue images that include drivers (NVIDIA), codecs and other changes that we can not include in Fedora, generally for legal reasons. I recommend giving them a try if your hardware requires this kind of support.
Alongside the official Fedora Kinoite variant, I maintain unofficial variants, Kinoite Beta and Kinoite Nightly, that are respectively including KDE Beta and Nightly packages on top of stable Fedora in order to make it easier to test the latest changes in the KDE Plasma desktop environment. See Introducing Kinoite Nightly (and Kinoite Beta) for more details (currently paused while we work on Plasma 6 images.
See talks about Fedora Kinoite.
rpm-ostree based desktop systems (Silverblue, Kinoite, etc.) use Flatpaks to make graphical applications easily available to users. I maintain KDE applications Flatpaks in Flathub and am working on packaging and fixing the missing ones.
To make it easier to run various popular distributions with toolbox or distrobox, I have created a community maintained repository to share the maintenance of container images: toolbx-images. See Community maintained images for toolbox (and distrobox) for more details.
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