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Fedora Silverblue Desktop

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:41:19 -0400

This document covers how to set up an x64 Fedora Silverblue as a developer machine. It is geared towards Go, Python and JavaScript development.

All commands on this page should be executed from the user’s home directory.

Install Nvidia drivers

Follow the official doc.

Configure terminal

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SSH Client and Server

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:31:53 -0500

This page describes how to set up a Linux machine as an SSH server and remote in from macOS.

SSH Server on Linux

First install OpenSSH server on the specific Linux distro if it’s not already present.

Then check if the sshd service is enabled and active.

sudo systemctl status sshd

If not, enable and activate it by the following.

GNU GRUB and Multiboot

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:45:41 -0500

Bootloader

The Bootloader Wiki page contains good information about bootloaders in general.

According to the Wiki page, BIOS and UEFI are first-stage bootloaders. They start the second-stage bootloader such as GNU GRUB. Second-stage bootloaders “are not themselves operating systems, but are able to load an operating system properly and transfer execution to it; the operating system subsequently initializes itself and may load extra device drivers. The second-stage boot loader does not need drivers for its own operation, but may instead use generic storage access methods provided by system firmware such as the BIOS or Open Firmware, though typically with restricted hardware functionality and lower performance”.