WooHoo! RHEL 10 is here and it’s time to get moving with an image mode setup for Red Hat Summit!
Last week a buddy at work got a new laptop and wanted to install RHEL 10 using image mode. I thought to myself, “that’s great idea, why haven’t I already done this?” I really like using Fedora and getting exposed to the latest and greatest open source tech, but I also really value the stability and curation that happens with RHEL. Since virtually all of the applications I use are on flatpak, and any “fedora-ish” things I need are available via containers, why not have a bullet-proof OS using image mode?!
Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat employee who makes a living and takes great pride in working on RHEL.
It turns out, it was super easy to put this together. I took some of my current Fedora Containerfiles, some tricks from my buddy Valentin‘s repo, and put it together using our GitHub Actions template. Anyone looking to get started down this path can use my repo as a starting point if you like. It’s really simple to customize and push the images to a registry like ghcr or Quay and schedule automatic builds/updates.
First Impressions
RHEL 10.0 includes GNOME 47 on Wayland on top of the 6.12 kernel, and as one would expect, GNOME feels amazing. While the kid in me still prefers KDE, my adult side really appreciates the newer refinements in GNOME. Wow, it’s come a long way since the early GNOME 3 days a decade ago! I’ve been using 10 a lot during the beta phase, but this was all headless server & container stuff. This is the first time I’m experiencing the graphical side. Again, with my setup most of the applications (slack, chrome, VS code, VLC, etc) are coming from flathub.org so I’m not pulling in a massive amount of packages. Honestly, everything I need from the OS is there.
That said, the only thing stopping me from moving this to my main desktop right now is waiting for NVIDIA packages to land. I suspect it wouldn’t be too difficult to use the NVIDIA-linux-$STUFF.run binary wrapper in a container build, but this will have to wait until after summit. ….I’m also hoping that either NVIDIA or rpmfusion will get their packages out before I get around to messing with this.
…more to come on RHEL 10.