Fedora 38 Sway Spin ISO bootable and working

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Spins/x86_64/iso/

1 3 3 years ago

dl.fedoraproject.org

It's early, but with the announcement of a Sway spin on Fedora 38 coming, it's worth noting that the current ISO build of rawhide boots and runs successfully on my Acer Swift 3 Ryzen box.

I didn't have to do anything special other than configure wifi from nmcli at the command line. Hard-wired ethernet detects and works fine out of the box.

The sway spin team deserve credit for making an early boot work with most of the sway goodness in place.

With this, we now have bootable ISO versions of sway distributions based on arch, fedora, and ubuntu.

davidthewatson3• 3 years ago

A few days of testing later, I'm happy to report that the Sericea stack, which places Sway on Silverblue ISO, boots, installs, and runs with few bugs on Fedora 39 also. I'm in heaven on these builds since Sericea combines the lightest, fastest desktop I know with the most complete, turnkey, immutable host, container isolation I've seen via Super-Enter, toolbox enter, voila! The same kind of terminal isolated container environment I've been trying to build since not long after docker shipped nearly a decade ago.

davidthewatson3• 3 years ago

The sericea builds are here if anyone wants to wade into the combined Silverblue/Sway water:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/ra...

Fedora 38 Sway Spin ISO bootable and working

Related Stories