A desktop for your childhood home's computer room.
Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that reminds us of a bygone era of computing. Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme.
The only way to install currently is to rebase from an existing atomic Fedora installation to the latest build. ISOs will be available at some point.
- First rebase to the unsigned image, to get the proper signing keys and policies installed:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ledif/blue95:latest - Reboot and then rebase to the signed image, like so:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ledif/blue95:latest
It is recommended to create a new user after rebasing.
These images are signed with Sigstore's cosign. You can verify the signature by downloading the cosign.pub file from this repo and running the following command:
cosign verify --key cosign.pub ghcr.io/ledif/blue95- Match upstream Fedora Xfce in terms of core system components (e.g., X11 vs Wayland, PulseAudo vs PipeWire, etc).
- Pull in tweaks from Universal Blue (e.g. codecs, drivers) to provide a more usable out-of-the box experience.
- Provide an aesthetic that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing.
Non goals:
- Faithful reproduction of design elements from decades old operating systems. Whenever usability and exact replication are at odds, usability and accessibility will generally be preferred.
- @grassmunk/@dominichayesferen for Chicago95 and Chicagofier respectively
- BlueBuild, Universal Blue and Fedora
- The Xfce team