Don't the Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic, and Cosmic Atomic variants of Fedora use the OSTree model?

[jeckersb]

Discussed in #3564

^{Originally posted by Ricky-Tigg January 27, 2026}
Hello. While the README.me presents Fedora variants using libostree, some that I thought met this criterion are not listed. Since all of these variants invariably have names beginning with "Fedora", I'm omitting them for brevity: Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and Cosmic Atomic. Should we conclude that these do not use the OSTree model?

Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic respective former names are Sericea and Onyx, which names are still visible.

$ ostree remote refs fedora | \
awk '/rawhide/&&/x86_64/ {print}' | \
grep -E 'sericea|onyx'
fedora:fedora/rawhide/x86_64/onyx
fedora:fedora/rawhide/x86_64/sericea

P.S. The Fedora Project has no intention to fix this. That's the way it is. Therefore invoking 'ostree remote refs fedora' with '| grep '\-atomic$'' or '| grep -E 'sway|budgie'' to search for them would be vain. It should then be concluded that the relative images do not exist.

[jeckersb]

Hm since creating an issue from a discussion doesn't include any of the comments from the discussion... copy/paste from the original

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Thanks for bringing this up! This is likely a case of bit-rot, probably when the README.me was created those additional Fedora variants did not exist and have been added over time. Since different atomic desktop variants are likely to continue being added and removed, we should probably update the README.md to:

• Keep the references to Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT as-is, since these are distinct subprojects.
• Remove the entries for Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite
• Add a new catch-all entry for Fedora Atomic Desktops which links to https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

This way we'll transitively pick up changes to the Atomic Desktop lineup.