Try the latest and greatest GNOME software in a VM or on real hardware

GNOME OS is a bootable operating system with vanilla version of GNOME. Its main use is testing. Testing GNOME requires fine control on the software stack of the operating system. Thus, it is better not to depend on a specific distribution. GNOME OS has been made originally to run as a virtual machine.

However, GNOME OS is upgradable through OSTree, and Flatpak applications can be installed. And this through integration with GNOME Software integration. So it should be pretty close to a complete operating system.

What does it take to take GNOME OS to real hardware? And how much of it is usable? Can we do software development on GNOME OS?

In this presentation we will see answers through the experience of porting GNOME OS to the Pinebook Pro, a cheap ARM 64 bits laptop.

Valentin David works for Codethink. He co-maintains the Freedesktop SDK. And he contributes to GNOME build meta.

GNOME OS is designed for desktop testing purposes but I was intrigued to see it running on real hardware. So I grabbed myself an ISO and flashed it to a USB to see if I could get a native install up and running. As GNOME OS distributes software using flatpaks I tested out installing and a couple of other applications. This video was edited and uploaded from GNOME OS using Kdenlive from flathub.  I'll do a follow up video the more GNOME OS progresses on native hardware.

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