choose-an-image.md

Choose An Image

Public image names follow this grammar:

• <platform>-<environment>
• <platform>-<environment>-<driver>

Choose in this order.

1. Pick a lane

• alma9: NVIDIA 580 compatibility lane
• alma10: stable lane
• fedora43: edge lane

2. Pick an environment

• gnome: the default documented workstation experience
• cosmic: a parallel supported workstation experience
• server: the headless admin/operator lane

3. Pick a driver lane if the distro lane supports one

• images without a driver suffix are the standard lane
• nvidia-open: newer supported NVIDIA GPUs on supported Alma 10 and Fedora 43 images
• nvidia-580: Alma 9 only, for the supported proprietary R580 lane

Supported images

The exact supported image list comes from files/base/runtime/usr/share/myos/image-matrix.tsv; myos rebase downloads that matrix from GitHub when it builds the picker.

Current lanes:

• alma9: alma9-gnome-nvidia-580, alma9-cosmic-nvidia-580, alma9-server-nvidia-580
• alma10: alma10-gnome, alma10-gnome-nvidia-open, alma10-cosmic, alma10-cosmic-nvidia-open, alma10-server, alma10-server-nvidia-open
• fedora43: fedora43-gnome, fedora43-gnome-nvidia-open, fedora43-cosmic, fedora43-cosmic-nvidia-open, fedora43-server

Unsupported combinations are intentional.

• no console images
• no workstation full split
• no Alma 9 standard or nvidia-open images
• no fedora43-server-nvidia-open

Published tag examples

• Stable GNOME workstation on Alma 10: alma10-gnome
• Stable COSMIC workstation on Alma 10 with the open NVIDIA lane: alma10-cosmic-nvidia-open
• Edge GNOME workstation on Fedora 43: fedora43-gnome
• NVIDIA 580 GNOME workstation on Alma 9: alma9-gnome-nvidia-580
• Stable server on Alma 10: alma10-server
• Edge server on Fedora 43: fedora43-server

myos rebase shows the full list grouped by role, environment, platform, and driver.