5 posts tagged with "tunaos"

People have poked at the immutable desktop from a lot of directions. Some mixed distributions on one system, some delivered a whole OS as an OCI image, and some ran a desktop out of containers. What made the idea usable were two things. bootc turns the OS into an ordinary OCI image that you switch to atomically and roll back from. Project Bluefin proved that people would use a bootc desktop every day, not only as a demo.

Today the landscape has three corners. Fedora Silverblue showed that an atomic desktop could work with rpm-ostree. Universal Blue and Bluefin showed that bootc desktops can run at scale. TunaOS does the same idea on the Enterprise Linux side.

TunaOS is a small project with an outsized goal: an enterprise-grade, cloud-native desktop that tracks current software without abandoning Enterprise Linux lifecycles. It is built by a small core team — and it should not stay that way. This post lays out every way to get involved, from a five-minute docs fix to building a whole new desktop flavor.

Enterprise Linux has a problem with the desktop. RHEL, AlmaLinux and CentOS Stream are made for servers. They are strong, they have a long life, and they are stable to the point of tedium. For a fleet of production hosts, this is correct. But it is not correct for the machine that a developer or an administrator uses each day.

Thus most EL sites use Fedora or Ubuntu on the desktop, and something fully different in the datacenter. The result is two package ecosystems and two update rates. It is also two sets of tickets that ask why the same operation is different on the two systems.

TunaOS closes this gap. It gives you true desktop environments as bootc images. They are built directly on the Enterprise Linux base that your servers use now.

People have poked at the immutable desktop from a lot of directions. Some mixed distributions on one system, some delivered a whole OS as an OCI image, and some ran a desktop out of containers. What made the idea usable were two things. bootc turns the OS into an ordinary OCI image that you switch to atomically and roll back from. Project Bluefin proved that people would use a bootc desktop every day, not only as a demo.

Today the landscape has three corners. Fedora Silverblue showed that an atomic desktop could work with rpm-ostree. Universal Blue and Bluefin showed that bootc desktops can run at scale. TunaOS does the same idea on the Enterprise Linux side.

So this is the TunaOS blog. We decided that the project needs one. Commit messages are not the correct place for all of this.