NOTICE

The owner of this repository has passed away and this project is no longer being maintained. The repo will remain intact for now, but will likely be archived in the future.

About & Inspirations

My spin based on Fedora Silverblue, which is derived from the amazing Universal Blue project. This image is created with BlueBuild tooling for making & maintaining container-based Linux desktop images.

cabos is inspired and borrows heavily from Bluefin-DX and gidro-os.

The main idea is to have an up-to-date, stable, and pre-configured base OS, and to use customized containers with Distrobox to do development work within it. You can see an example of a base Ubuntu container to get started with here.

ZSH is configured to use oh-my-zsh by default, but customizing the config has changed a little. If you use an Distrobox based on Jetskis, you can share zsh between the two, but also have seperate options as well:

By default, your new .zshrc config for your machine will be located at ~/.config/contexts/localhost/.zshrc. The default config for each Distrobox will be located in ~/.config/contexts/container-name/.zshrc. To have shared config across both localhost and Distrobox containers, create a new config ending in .zsh here: ~/.config/contexts/config.d/. Please note, it is not recommended to modify the base ~/.zshrc file since it will source the appropriate files for whatever you're running at the time.

Running SETUP_DEV_TOOLS=true distrobox enter jetskis will setup nvm and pyenv in your container. You can modify the ~/.zshrc file if you want to install other packages.

Modifications

Removed packages (RPMs):

• Firefox
• nvtop (Except for Nvidia images)
• Gnome Software rpm-ostree package (not needed since we use rpm-ostree auto-updater)
• Gnome classic session
• Gnome Tour
• Gnome Initial Setup
• Gnome System Monitor
• Gnome system extensions
• Gnome Tweaks
• Gnome Terminal

Installed packages (RPMs):

• auto-cpufreq
• Android Tools (adb & fastboot)
• Zsh
• Mosh
• Micro
• Gnome Boxes
• VS Code
• p7zip & p7zip-plugins
• Podman
• Docker CE
• playerctl
• Samba
• Qemu

Installed akmods:

• v4l2loopback
• XOne (Xbox One RF driver)
• XPadNeo (Xbox One Bluetooth driver)

Installed extensions:

• Blur My Shell
• Caffeine
• Just Perfect
• Dash to Panel
• GSConnect
• AppIndicator Support
• Hibernate Status Button

Installed flatpaks:

• Firefox from Flathub instead of the system package
• Mission Center from Flathub instead of Gnome System Monitor
• Konsole Has font ligatures support
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Camera
• Contacts
• Clocks
• Document Viewer
• Text Editor
• G4Music
• Clapper
• Image Viewer
• Sticky Notes
• Flatseal
• Warehouse
• PinApp
• Extension Manager
• Gear Lever

Optional flatpaks at first login:

• Characters
• Disk Usage Analyzer
• Font Viewer
• Logs
• Maps
• Photos (Organizer)
• Sushi (Nautilus Previewer)
• Weather
• Fedora Media Writer
• Font Downloader
• Brave Browser
• GNOME Web
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• GNOME Builder
• PyCharm (Community)
• PyCharm (Professional)
• IntelliJ IDEA (Community)
• IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate)
• Webstorm
• PhpStorm
• Rider
• CLion
• GoLand
• Android Studio
• Sublime Text 3
• Bruno
• Insomnia
• Postman
• Podman Desktop
• Meld
• Spotify
• Pithos (Pandora)
• VLC
• Kdenlive
• Shotcut
• Flowblade
• OpenShot
• Audacity
• GIMP
• Krita
• Inkscape
• Figma
• PrusaSlicer
• Cura
• FreeCAD
• OpenSCAD
• Discord
• Telegram
• WhatsApp
• Signal
• Slack
• Microsoft Teams
• Bottles
• Lutris
• Heroic Launcher
• Steam
• Gamescope
• MangoHUD
• SteamTinkerLaunch
• Proton Updater
• OnlyOffice
• LibreOffice
• Obsidian
• Standard Notes
• Thunderbird
• OBS Studio
• Boatswain

Settings applied by default:

• 4 static workspaces (dynamical workspaces disabled)
• Disabled workspaces only on primary monitor
• Disabled "hot corners"
• Disable middle-click paste
• Enable normal "Minimize, Maximize, and Close" buttons on application windows
• Use Alt+Left & Alt-Right to navigate workspaces
• Use Alt+, for Previous Track
• Use Alt+. for Next Track
• Use Alt+/ for Play/Pause
• Enabled two-finger scrolling
• Disabled "natural" scrolling direction
• Enabled tap-to-click
• Not using UI scaling - but set 1.5x font scaling
• Default to "dark" theme
• Enabled Night Light
• Enabled GSConnect
• Increased inotify limits (for preventing errors like "too many open files" when installing/using some huge applications & games)

Installation

ISO (Recommended)

ISOs are online-based & are constantly upgraded. There is no need to worry about the version & the date of the ISO.

ISO is available for download here.

Just download & proceed with installation.

After you get into the OS, type this command into Terminal & reboot:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/jitcos/cabos:latest

Rebase from Silverblue

To rebase an existing Silverblue/Kinoite installation to the latest build:

• First rebase to the unsigned image, to get the proper signing keys and policies installed:

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/jitcos/cabos:<version>
  

• Reboot to complete the rebase:

  systemctl reboot
  

• Then rebase to the signed image, like so:

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/jitcos/cabos:<version>
  

• Reboot again to complete the installation

  systemctl reboot
  

This repository builds date tags as well, so if you want to rebase to a particular day's build:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/jitcos/cabos:20230403

Modifications

Optional config:

• ujust configure-grub: Hide GRUB text output on boot (if you want to make boot process faster [press Shift on boot if you need to see boot menu])
• ujust enable-hibernation: Setup new swapfile and change configurations to allow your computer to hibernate or suspend-to-hibernate