☀️ solarpowered ☀️

solarpowered is a learning and hobby project. My main goal is to better understand OCI images as a concept and in practice, and to eventually end up with the ideal base image for my laptop and future devices.

These images boot and are fully functional for daily operations - further than that, I do not guarantee anything. I also deploy experiments every so often, and breakages or mishaps may happen. If you choose to daily-drive any of my images, kindly notify me so I know when to hold back.

Why did you name this 'solarpowered'?

Because I like Gawain from Fate/Extra & Fate/Grand Order.

Image details

Built using Bluebuild template on top of Fedora's latest Silverblue image.

Highlights

• Multimedia codecs from fedora-multimedia
• bootc, codium, distrobox, topgrade installed natively
• fastfetch, fish, just, and wl-clipboard installed natively
• GNOME Boxes for virtualization installed natively
• mutter-patched
• nautilus-extensions and nautilus-python - also comes with nautilus-copy-path
• adw-gtk3-theme, Fonts Tweak Tool, Waydroid, Windscribe VPN, and Zen Browser installed natively
• Native installs of Fedora bookmarks, background, extensions, repos, and Flathub remote removed
• Native installs of GNOME extensions removed
• Native installs of Firefox removed
• Several sound & icon themes & fonts installed OOTB

solarpowered - the original, made to support Lenovo T480/s

Uses kernel-blu.

Includes the following tools for maximum Lenovo T480/s functionality with 0 layering:

• igt-gpu-tools for monitoring iGPU use
• python-validity (sneexy)
• throttled (abn)
• TLP
• zcfan

It is recommended to run append solarpowered-setup upon installation. This installs TLP-UI Flatpak, configrues necessary kernel arguments & local initramfs regeneration, and enables python-validity and zcfan. It is recommended to reboot afterwards.

NOTE: This does not configure throttled, as undervolt stable values differ between machines.

solarpowered-ex - desktop image with LACT installed

Uses kernel-bazzite.

Includes the following tools:

• LACT-libadwaita
• nvtop

It is recommended to run append solarpowered-ex-setup upon installation. This enables the B550 suspend fix systemd service, configures necessary kernel arguments & local initramfs regeneration, and enables GNOME Variable Refresh Rate. It is recommended to reboot afterwards.

solarizzed-gnome - bazzite-deck-gnome with personal additions

Minimal modifications to bazzite-deck-gnome with several layered packages for my personal use.

Installation

You can install by rebasing from Silverblue or generating an ISO file yourself. If you decide to give this a go, and would like to provide feedback and/or suggestions, feel free to open a new issue.

Rebase

To rebase from a Silverblue installation, follow the steps below.

solarpowered

1. Rebase to the unsigned image to get the proper signing keys + policies installed and reboot automatically:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/askpng/solarpowered:latest --reboot

2. Rebase to the signed image and reboot automatically:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/askpng/solarpowered:latest --reboot

solarpowered-ex

1. Rebase to the unsigned image to get the proper signing keys + policies installed and reboot automatically:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/askpng/solarpowered-ex:latest --reboot

2. Rebase to the signed image and reboot automatically:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/askpng/solarpowered-ex:latest --reboot

solarizzed-gnome

1. Rebase to the unsigned image to get the proper signing keys + policies installed and reboot automatically:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/askpng/solarizzed-gnome:latest --reboot

2. Rebase to the signed image and reboot automatically:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/askpng/solarizzed-gnome:latest --reboot

Verification

These images are signed with Sigstore's cosign.

Verify cosign.pub

Download the cosign.pub file from this repo and run the following command within the same directory:

cosign verify --key cosign.pub ghcr.io/askpng/solarpowered