Fedora Remix

Purpose

This project is a Fedora Remix and aims to be a complete system for personal computing with localization support. You can download a live image and try the software, and then install it in your PC if you want. You can also customize the image starting from available scripts.

Main goals of this remix are:

• Flatpak apps usage
• adding common extra-repos
• supporting external devices (like printers and scanners)

How to build the LiveCD

See a detailed description about how to build the live media.

Note

If selinux is on, turn it off during the build process.

Prepare the working directories

Clone the project into your <source-path> to get sources:

$ git clone https://github.com/mbugni/fedora-remix.git /<source-path>

Choose or create a <target-path> folder where to put results.

Prepare the build container

Install Podman:

$ sudo dnf --assumeyes install podman

Create the container for the build enviroment:

$ sudo podman build --file=/<source-path>/Containerfile --tag=livebuild:fc40

Initialize the container by running an interactive shell:

$ sudo podman run --privileged --network=host -it --volume=/dev:/dev:ro \
--volume=/<source-path>:/live/source:ro --volume=/<target-path>:/live/target \
--name=livebuild-fc40 --hostname=livebuild-fc40 livebuild:fc40 /usr/bin/bash

Exit from the build container. The container can be reused and upgraded multiple times. See Podman docs for more details.

To enter again into the build container:

$ sudo podman start -ia livebuild-fc40

Build the image

First, start the build container if not running:

$ sudo podman start livebuild-fc40

Choose a variant (eg: workstation with localization support) that corresponds to a profile (eg: Workstation-l10n).

Available profiles/variants are:

• Minimal (console only, mainly for testing)
• Desktop (minimal KDE environment with basic tools)
• Workstation (KDE environment with more features like printing and scanning support)

For each variant you can append -l10n to get italian localization (eg: Desktop-l10n).

Build the .iso image by running the kiwi-ng command:

$ sudo podman exec livebuild-fc40 kiwi-ng --profile=Workstation-l10n --type=iso \
--debug --color-output --shared-cache-dir=/live/target/cache system build \
--description=/live/source/kiwi-descriptions --target-dir=/live/target

The build can take a while (30 minutes or more), it depends on your machine performances.

Remove unused resources when don't need anymore:

$ sudo podman container rm --force livebuild-fc40
$ sudo podman image rm livebuild:fc40

Transferring the image to a bootable media

You can use a tool like Ventoy to build multiboot USB devices, or simply transfer the image to a single USB stick using the dd command:

$ sudo dd if=/<target-path>/Fedora-Remix.x86_64-<version>.iso of=/dev/<stick-device>

Post-install tasks

After installation, remove live system resources to save space by running:

$ source /usr/local/libexec/remix/livesys-cleanup

Per gli utenti italiani

Questo è un Remix di Fedora per computer ad uso personale con il supporto in italiano. Nell'immagine .iso che si ottiene sono già installati i pacchetti e le configurazioni per il funzionamento in italiano del sistema (come l'ambiente grafico, i repo extra etc).

Il remix ha come obiettivi principali:

• utilizzo delle applicazioni Flatpak
• aggiunta dei repository comuni
• supporto per dispositivi esterni (come stampanti e scanner)

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG.md file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.