Day 1 with Fedora Silverblue

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Fedora Silverblue is an ostree-based desktop that delivers atomic OS images via rpm-ostree, runs GUI apps as Flatpaks and containers with podman, and keeps multiple bootable deployments so upgrades are downloaded and staged without touching the running system. Package layering creates a new commit but requires a reboot; rollback simply swaps boot entries. Demo attempts include package overrides, composing a different OS branch (rebase to Atomic Host failed due to missing cloud-init data), and toolbox for persistent dev containers. Automatic updates and CVE-aware diffs are supported.

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1. 0:00Fedora Silverblue intro
2. 1:31What is Silverblue
3. 3:58Mutable vs Immutable hosts
4. 4:40Silverblue vs Workstation
5. 8:02OSTree and RPMs
6. 11:42Deployments with rpm-ostree
7. 19:17Package layering
8. 27:20Containers and tools
9. 37:03Flatpak for GUI Applications
10. 40:33Silverblue future
11. 45:01Workflows and mindset
12. 50:57Resources and community

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