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Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

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Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

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What’s the motivation for the creators of this? And who’s backing it? Doesn’t feel like a weekend hobby project but rather a strategic open source play of some sort. Maybe something Nvidia related?

It’s a variant of Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org)

Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

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> Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck I'm not quite following - this is a host OS that runs things in containers, or the OS inside a container?

Fedora's OSTree recently-ish started supporting using OCI containers as the content-addressed image backend in addition to their original git-like one:

https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/container/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer...

Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

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> Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck I'm not quite following - this is a host OS that runs things in containers, or the OS inside a container?

The OS is delivered to you via a container (via the github registry), but can also run things in containers.

The OS itself is run on the bare metal.

Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

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post #7

> Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck I'm not quite following - this is a host OS that runs things in containers, or the OS inside a container?

Fedora's OSTree recently-ish started supporting using OCI containers as the content-addressed image backend in addition to their original git-like one: https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/container/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer...

Are OCI images content-addressed?
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