Experiments with Linux distributions. Right now, the state of the project is an elementary OS-ish system running from OSTree, which has the following benefits:
- Read-only system.
- A/B updates like Android.
- Separating system packages from user packages.
In the future, my main goal is to work on the application stack in Bloom, things like:
- Wayland
- Unique and friendly windowing system
- Flutter as primary toolkit
- 'Just works' mentality.
- Productive environment for software developers and creatives.
I am doing this only as a hobby, so I want to reuse from other free software projects when possible.
Discord for the project! https://discord.gg/V7nVXFZ7
Currently there's no way to install directly. What I recommend is installing Endless OS, then 'deploy' the OSTree you've built since Endless also uses OSTree.
The deploy_ostree_local.sh should do this. This is what I currently do for my system (developing Bloom on Bloom!).
Make sure you're on a Debian/Ubuntu derived system, download all dependencies:
apt-get update
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ubuntu-keyring ca-certificates \
debootstrap git binfmt-support parted kpartx rsync dosfstools xz-utils \
python3.8 python3-pip unzip curl less groff \
ostree xorriso squashfs-toolsThen run sudo ./build.sh. This will create a OSTree repository in the build/ostree directory that you can (a) deploy to system (b) sync with S3.
Bloom would not be possible without the work of the open-source community, which I hope this project eventually contributes back to.
A non-exaustive list of projects Bloom wouldn't be possible without:
- elementary OS
- Ubuntu
- deb-ostree-builder
- Purism and
phoshWayland shell
Hosting for our APT repository generously hosted by Cloudsmith.
