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Project Bluefin: A Linux Desktop for Serious Developers (thenewstack.io)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, they don't have a clear mission statement to explain the delta of "why does this exist, and what problems does it solve".

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I think it boils down to: "because we can". "We can automatically build our own setup on github and that's what we do"

    Installing tailscale, zsh, fish, vscode, extension manager, codecs, etc. out of the box isn't enough for a new distro. Especially because you break the signing of fedora by doing so.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    out of the box isn’t enough for a new distro.

    I'm a bit surprised that they mentioned "distribution" on the Bluefin website, as the Universal Blue site (the base project behind Bluefin) explicitly mentions not being a distro - and I know that Jorge tends to be very clear that they're not building a distro:

    This isn't a distribution, you can always rebase back to Fedora without reinstalling. This is a unique relationship between upstream and downstream that is popular in cloud, but still new to the Linux desktop. "Custom images" seems to be a decent place to start since that's what people call them in cloud.

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