openSUSE MicroOS/Tumbleweed with systemd-boot available

[Ludwig Nussel]

Hi!

JFYI openSUSE now has a MicroOS (transactional system with read-only /) 
qcow image¹ suitable for use in qemu that uses systemd-boot. The image 
is part of the Tumbleweed development process and automatically released 
(ie potentially daily). It's fully integrated with btrfs snapshots and 
rollback. As a special gimmick the image automatically encrypts itself 
on first boot. Optionally the image can also leverage a TPM or FIDO2 key 
to unlock the volume. Still quite WIP so I wouldn't recommend this for 
production use. Nevertheless worth trying out to see how a mainstream 
distro may leverage the technology.

The image implements what I talked about at ASG². A more detailed 
article is available on news.o.o³. Some screenshots in the wiki⁴ and a 
video⁵ from openQA for the impatient :-)

A Tumbleweed image with traditional writable file system will follow 
soon. That one will be more convenient for development.

cu
Ludwig

[1] 
http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/appliances/openSUSE-MicroOS.x86_64-kvm-and-xen-sdboot.qcow2
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drgo6pvn5hI
[3] https://news.opensuse.org/2023/12/20/systemd-fde/
[4] https://en.opensuse.org/Systemd-boot#Pre-built_MicroOS
[5] https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/5e1a934d915f

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