I found myself dealing with various rough edges and questions around running Ollama on Fedora Silverblue for the past few months. These arise from the fact that there are a few different ways of installing Ollama, /usr is a read-only mount point on Silverblue, people have different kinds of GPUs or none at all, the [ ]
Those of you who follow the Toolbx project might have noticed something odd about our latest release that came out a month ago. The version number looked shorter than usual even though it only had relatively conservative and urgent bug-fixes, and no new enhancements. If you were wondering about this, then, yes, you are right. [ ]
If you are using Toolbx 0.1.2 or newer, then some existing containers have been hit by a bug that breaks certificates from certificate authorities (or CAs) that are used for secure network communication. The bug prevents OpenSSL and other cryptographic components from finding any certificates, which means that programs like pacman and DNF that use [ ]
and why did it take so long for that to happen? If you build Toolbx from Git and install it to your usual prefix on a host operating system with the proprietary NVIDIA driver, then you will be able to use the driver on all freshly started Toolbx containers. Just like that. There s no [ ]
This is the second instalment of my 2023 retrospective series on Toolbx. One very important thing that we did behind the scenes was to make Toolbx a release blocker for Fedora 39 and onwards. This means that the registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox OCI image is considered a release-blocking deliverable, and there are release-blocking test criteria to ensure that [ ]
… and why did it take so long for that to happen? The year 2023 was a busy one in Toolbx land. We had two big releases, and one of the important things we did was to start offering built-in support for Arch Linux and Ubuntu. What does that mean? It means that if you [ ]
Six years ago As part of our efforts to make Fedora Workstation more attractive for developers, particularly those building applications that would be deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we had made it easy to create gratis, self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines inside GNOME Boxes. You had to join the Red Hat Developer [ ]
This is a deep dive into some of the technical details of Toolbx and is a continuation from the earlier post about bypassing the immutability of OCI containers. The problem As we saw earlier, Toolbx uses a special entry point for its containers. It s the toolbox executable itself. This is achieved by bind mounting the [ ]
At 15:00 UTC today, I will be talking about Toolbx on a new episode of Community Central. It will be broadcast live on BlueJeans Events (formerly Primetime) and the recording will be available on YouTube. I am looking forward to seeing some friendly faces in the audience.
This is a deep dive into some of the technical details of Toolbx. I find myself regularly explaining them to various people, so I thought that I should write them down. Feel free to read and comment, or you can also happily ignore it. The problem OCI containers are famous for being immutable. Once a [ ]