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docs: Elaborate a bit on FCOS
The overlap/conflicts between bootc and zincati/ignition are important to understand for that case. Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <[email protected]>
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Many users will be more interested in base (container) images.
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For pre-built base images:
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For pre-built base images; any Fedora derivative already using `ostree` can be seamlessly converted into using bootc;
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for example, [Fedora CoreOS](https://quay.io/repository/fedora/fedora-coreos) can be used as a
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base image; you will want to also `rpm-ostree install bootc` in your image builds currently.
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There are some overlaps between `bootc` and `ignition` and `zincati` however; see
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[this pull request](https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/pull/540) for more information.
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* Any Fedora derivative already using `ostree` can be seamlessly converted into using bootc; for example, [Fedora CoreOS](https://quay.io/repository/fedora/fedora-coreos) can be used as a base image; you will want to also `rpm-ostree install bootc` in your image builds currently.
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* There is also an in-development [centos-boot](https://github.com/centos/centos-boot) project.
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For other derivatives such as the ["Atomic desktops"](https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree), see
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discussion of [relationships](relationships.md) which particularly covers interactions with rpm-ostree.
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However, bootc itself is not tied to Fedora derivatives; [this issue](https://github.com/coreos/bootupd/issues/468) tracks the main blocker for other distributions.
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However, bootc itself is not tied to Fedora derivatives;
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[this issue](https://github.com/coreos/bootupd/issues/468) tracks the main blocker for other distributions.

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