Interactive List of Bootable Container Images

General
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>>> https://workshop.blue-build.org/images

The BlueBuild project has a new website for showcasing a list of bootable container images that utilize rpm-ostree or bootc which can be filtered by desktop environment, Nvidia graphic drivers pre-installed, kernel variants, and pre-installed codecs.

It seems to be the continuation of an old interactive prototype (that I can’t seem to find at the moment) to pick the desired Universal Blue image before Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora stood on their own.

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We want to make a similar page using the ArtifactHub API on the long run. Me and @castrojo pretend to PR and adapt some repos to make this possible in the future. We aim to make it so most custom/ublue images are listed on artifacthub at some point. Check out achillobator there!

Edit: I put the wrong URL LOL

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There were a couple interactive prototypes for that, one as a website by @xynydev if I recall correctly, which may have directly become the BlueBuild page, and one as an app which I developed and pitched to y’all. It didn’t gain enough traction for me to justify developing it further at the time. I can dig up the code for that very limited and now-outdated prototype if you still want it.

My primary goal was to convince people with more dedicated app/web development experience than I have that such interactive graphical tools would be beneficial for current and potential users, so it seems to have worked out in the end. I am very glad to see that there is new interest in that direction in addition to the image selector on the Bazzite website.

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Thanks for the highlight, nick!

The new BlueBuild page is not a continuation of the old prototype, it has been rewritten from scratch to allow for different categories of images and a better data model. Being able to build it on top of an API would be great, but it’s way easier to prototype with fully local data, especially if I want to include information that the projects themselves do not display very clearly.

The longer term plan with the page is that it could serve as a way to pick a base image for BlueBuild Workshop users, and that would work when creating a new image or for editing existing images as well. It would work basically as a low-to-no-code small-time sysadmin tool.