Hello, just curious if something changed as Project Bluefin is no longer listed on Framework’s Linux community-support list as of about a week or so ago?
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The documentation page on project bluefin page was removed as well. https://docs.projectbluefin.io/framework/
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I’m trying to find an old version of this webpage in wayback machine but apparently the website is in an outrage
web.archive.org is?
Looks to be working now
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There’s a discussion on GitHub about this. Looks like it’s directly related to what’s being discussed in this thread.
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But nothing except documentation/endorsements has been removed? Isn’t the process of installing and updating Bluefin the same as on any other computer? I have a FW12 and still plan to rebase from Bazzite (GNOME) to Bluefin if I find the time.
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I don’t really get what you are trying to ask.
Its linux, it works just like before even if the documentation for FW and the endorsements are removed. There is nothing special that would be needed, all the needed stuff is in the kernel etc and bluefin just builds on top of that.
There is no “rebase” needed. Just install using the x86 ISO and use it.
Lot of us maintainers still use FW hardware daily.
It just works
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I was having boot failures that seemed to have stemmed from the USB expansion card not being seated properly. Bluefin devs are still supporting the machine (they use it as a daily driver) they just don’t endorse Framework officially anymore.
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I think that before the move to Fedora 43, Bluefin DID have to add things for full hardware support. Now it just works out of the box using stuff from upstream, and there is no longer any need for special Framework support or documentation.
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Thanks for these links. It would be a shame if that could not be resolved. I was looking into switching to an immutable distro and bluefin seems like a very nice project and I would prefer if Framework were to align with these kinds of projects.
As I understand bluefin does not endorse Framework anymore, but they do not even want to be a community supported distro either?
In the above comment “it works just like before” and “There is nothing special that would be needed”.
Don’t think there ever was need for “instructions” as everything is done to the image OS that is then just spatted to your disk. And the modifications needed, if there were any, would be done by upstream (Fedora)
Same thing for us in Aurora. We pretty much only had the kernel module for charge limiter and few other stuff.
Well if that where the whole truth, there would not be any need for supported distros. It is still Linux so there will be problems. If not now, then in the future. The point of supported distros (in my opinion) is to have the people from the project involved with frameworks hardware to be able to figure out problems on different levels. The advantage in case of bluefin is, that the base (fedora) is still supported and upcoming problems could be addressed there. Of course one can also still contact bluefin etc. but the active communitys of framework and bluefin will overlap less. And to ensure compatibility e.g. for certain future upgrades, might also be less of a focus.
Project Bluefin was recently removed from the Framework website and documentation. You can still access older versions of the pages through web archives to view previous Bluefin resources even though the official links are no longer live.