intro to bootc

jharmison@gmail.com (James Harmison) — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:32:00 +0400

what bootc means to me

I’ve become something of a bootc fanboy lately. It started when I used bootc to help me develop and test a kernel patch for some work I was doing with one of my employer’s hardware partners. I’ve been helping my gaming friends abandon Windows p r o b l e m s¹ and move to Bazzite from the folks at Universal Blue for a bulletproof, performant experience. I’ve helped coworkers build custom RHCOS images to enable capabilities on new hardware inside OpenShift. I’ve helped Fedora community members migrate their Silverblue installations to their (as yet unofficial) bootc equivalents and get to enjoy easy, reliable package layering through derived builds instead of fighting rpm-ostree issues during major releases (like this week’s Fedora 44 release 🎉). Here’s how I navigated the Fedora 44 upgrade, by the way.

hello world

jharmison@gmail.com (James Harmison) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:13:00 +0400

Hello, World!

It’s been a long time since I made a blog post, let alone a blog.

Here we are, though. Maybe I’ll update this one more. I have big plans, at least. A small taste of what I need to start writing about:

bootc getting started guide for the container-curious atomic distro enjoyers, Bazzite-pilled gamers, and Arch diehards who heard of bootcrew as a possible savior to their stability woes
new home lab tour and decision making process, like why I’m not using the k8s distro that my employer makes and arguably enabled Google to open source Kubernetes, but am instead running a niche distro and why I love it
what’s going on in the local AI space, and details about the sick Framework Desktop I have running local models, how I’m using them, how I’m finding them, where I prefer just doing things myself, etc.
maybe I’ll ramble about the games I’m playing these days, or the super hard riff I’m working on mastering on the bass guitar, or maybe some shit about my three kids in college at the same time, idk

james

intro to bootc

what bootc means to me

hello world

Hello, World!