Experiment with bleeding-edge GNOME using GnomeOSTree

Kamil Páral Fedora Planet, Fedora QA, GNOME, Testing, Tools July 17, 2013July 1, 2022 1 Minute

I have just discovered GnomeOSTree (I’ve heard about it before, but never tried it). It allows you to run an absolutely fresh version of GNOME (checked out from git the very day) in a virtual machine. This is perfect for

experimenting with new features
checking whether a bug still exists in the development version
checking whether a bug fix is correct, without waiting for a distribution package update

I’ve just played with it for 10 minutes, so I might be missing a lot of things, but this seems to be a very useful tool for anyone testing and reporting GNOME bugs. It’s extremely easy to set up, you just download a VM disk image and import it into virt-manager. Later you can update it from inside the system. Try it!

Published by Kamil Páral

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Published July 17, 2013July 1, 2022

5 thoughts on “Experiment with bleeding-edge GNOME using GnomeOSTree”

bochecha says:

July 18, 2013 at 10:46

> “Later you can update it from inside the system.”

How?

I tried looking into it, but I didn’t manage to find that out.

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1. Kamil Páral says:
  
  July 18, 2013 at 11:02
  
  Using the ‘ostree’ command. See the linked wiki page https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeOSTree , “Upgrading” headline.
  
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  1. bochecha says:
    
    July 18, 2013 at 11:24
    
    Ah, I hadn’t found that page. 🙂
    
    Thanks!
    
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    1. Kamil Páral says:
      
      July 18, 2013 at 11:38
      
      It’s linked two times in the article 🙂
Colin Walters says:

July 19, 2013 at 19:17

Thanks for the positive blog entry! I hope you find it useful. If you have any issues or questions, you can catch me as “walters” on #gnome-hackers irc.gimp.net.

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