You know, immutable enterprise systems.

I installed HeliumOS (Almalinux bootc) on a corebooted Chromebook. Works really well, but audio needs to be configured.

The script needs a recent python which is not available there.

Go and rust can be installed for a user only. Is there something similar for python?

  • @mvirts
    2•1 month ago

    This script? https://github.com/WeirdTreeThing/chromebook-linux-audio

    I’m not familiar with bootc based systems but it looks like you could hack up the container spec here: https://codeberg.org/HeliumOS/bootc to build heliumOS with those changes. You would then use something like bootc switch ... to use it.

    (Add a line in the docker file to install newer python and run the audio script. I’m not sure if the script requires changes for this.)

    I could be way off base with this idea, I’m not sure how heliumOS expects users to install packages.

    You may also be able to run the latest python docker image to run the script, but the way this script modifies system files shouldn’t work on an immutable system.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 month ago

      Haha thanks for the idea!

      That actually makes a lot of sense. The image building simply should be really easy if you can just pull the already made image and just add the file.

      There is an example to install newer python, do something and uninstall it again (which I wouldnt do).

      Thanks, I will try to do that. I think HeliumOS has a future as a ChromeOS alternative