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The History of Fedora Silverblue


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The history of Fedora Silverblue from before it existed in 2012. OStree and other tech had to be invented first, but it all led to Silverblue

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https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree/NixOSComparison
From GUADEC 2012 - OSTree
https://lwn.net/Articles/511877/#walters
Gnome Continuous
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GnomeContinuous
Walters described OSTree as "a magic formula."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy0ZEHPXJ9Q
March 20, 2013 - Docker is born
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)
CoreOS sees its first public release in October of 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_Linux
Red Hat official inclusion of Docker with RHEL 6.5
https://web.archive.org/web/20131128171128/http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/11/26/rhel6-5-ga/
April 2014 - Project Atomic
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/04/announcing-project-atomic/
The actual distro building was left to the actual distro projects
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/05/the-difference-between-project-atomic-and-atomic-hosts/
Instructions to build on top of Fedora 20
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/04/build-your-own-atomic-host-on-fedora-20/
CENTOS and RHEL partner which began the journey to Atomic Host
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html
A Fedora Atomic Host installable ISO becomes available based on Rawhide
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/07/new-fedora-atomic-installable-iso/
August 2014 - CentOS Atomic Host alpha builds were available
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/08/centos-7-alpha-builds-for-atomic/
December 2014 - Fedora 21 releases with Atomic Host images
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/12/fedora-21-goes-gold-with-atomic-images/
March 2015 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host released
https://web.archive.org/web/20150312173742/http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/03/05/announcement-rhel-atomic-host-ga/
July 2015 - Package layering was introduced
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2016/07/hacking-and-extending-atomic-host/
Atomic Hosts came and went, including bi-weekly releases
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Two_Week_Atomic
2016 - XDG-App was renamed Flatpak
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/2016-May/000204.html
2018 - CoreOS Docker platform was acquired by Red Hat in January. It became, Red Hat CoreOS
https://projectatomic.io/blog/2018/05/welcome-redhat-coreos/
The Fedora flavor would live on as... Team Silverblue
https://web.archive.org/web/20180505090226/https://www.teamsilverblue.org/
The domain name and handles around the web were available
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/_attachments/team-silverblue-origins.pdf
It was almost called Silverleaf
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/faq/
October 30, 2018 - Fedora 29 was released with a Silverblue variant. Matthew Miller on Fedora Magazine noted
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/
The Fedora Council made the decision to tighten things up regarding naming
https://web.archive.org/web/20191121020222/https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedoras-strategic-direction-an-update-from-the-council/796
2019 - Fedora 30 and the Silverblue variant were released
https://web.archive.org/web/20201201201318/https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
2021 - Silverblue 35 in November, Fedora Kinoite appears
https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/
2023 - Silverblue 38 in April, Fedora Sericea appears
https://fedoraproject.org/sericea/

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