bluebuild-hyperreal

This is my custom build of Bazzite, Bluefin, and uCore, which I use on my desktop, laptop, and NAS, respectively.

Features

• Bazzite image is based on bazzite-gnome-nvidia:stable.
• Bluefin image is based on bluefin:latest.
• uCore image is based on ucore-hci:stable.
• Bazzite features
• Bluefin developer features
• atop
• borgbackup
• borgmatic
• Prometheus node-exporter
• Vivaldi web browser

Brew packages that can be installed on the host with ujust install-brew-packages:

• dust
• lazyjournal
• neovim
• nmap
• tea
• zellij

In contrast to the default UBlue settings, the following systemd units are disabled by default in this build:

• cups.service

Installation

Bazzite

sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolicy nas-aux.carp-wyvern.ts.net/bluebuild-bazzite:latest

Bluefin

sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolicy nas-aux.carp-wyvern.ts.net/bluebuild-bluefin:latest

uCore

Boot into the Fedora CoreOS live ISO.

sudo coreos-installer install /dev/nvme0n1 --ignition-url https://files.moonshadow.dev/ucore.ign

Reboot.

Tailscale should be installed on CoreOS. Run the following command to login to Tailscale:

sudo systemctl enable --now tailscaled.service
sudo tailscale up

Pin the working deployment.

sudo ostree admin pin 0

Once logged into Tailscale, run the following command to rebase to custom uCore image:

sudo rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:nas-aux.carp-wyvern.ts.net/bluebuild-ucore:latest

Reboot, then run the following command to set the mountpoint for the naspool:

sudo zfs set mountpoint=/var/naspool naspool

Building locally

Requirements

• Docker or Podman
• cosign.key associated with cosign.pub must exist at /home/jas/.cosign.key
• docker-registry-ui must be setup on private Tailnet at nas-aux.carp-wyvern.ts.net.

Setup

Install the blue-build/cli program.

docker run --pull always --rm ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:latest-installer | bash

Clone this repo into /home/jas on the build host. Copy the systemd files to the systemd user directory. Enable the systemd timer.

cd bluebuild-hyperreal/
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
cp -fv systemd/bluebuild_build.* ~/.config/systemd/user/
systemctl --user enable bluebuild_build.timer