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| 3 | 41 | |
| 252 | 1,175 | |
| 5.6% | 3.8% | |
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| 1 day ago | 3 days ago | |
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ABRoot
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What do you prefer more and why?
Maybe in the future , using a tool like abroot would allow the user to do such modifications as they prefer.
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How do I add a parameter to the boot config?
I got it by following this here: https://documentation.vanillaos.org/docs/ABRoot/
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VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux
It says it uses abroot rather than ostree
https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/ABRoot/
ostree
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NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
Ansible makes mutable changes to the OS, task by task.
Nix is immutable. A new change is made entirely new, and only after the build is successful, all packages are "symlinked" to the current system.
Fedora Silverblue is based on ostree [1]. It works similarly like git, but on your root tree. But it requires you to reboot the whole system for the changes to take effect. Since Nix is just symlinked packages, you don't need to reboot the system.
More detailed explanation here [2].
[1]: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree
[2]: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-12-intro-to-immutable-...
- Can't install from flathub
- hello guys everytime i intall a flatpak on fedora this error always happnes how do i fix it
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PSA: Flatpaks are currently broken on Fedora. Here's a temporary solution.
This one is for the ostree bug currently ongoing: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/2900
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flatpak issue on fedora 38 kde
This sounds related to the ostree bug.
- ostree-system-generator failed with exit status 1 on every boot after update.
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What do you prefer more and why?
I definitely agree that immutability offers considerable value in regards to improving security. But arguably it's insufficient to pull the win over mutable Fedora due to the losses caused by the inability to install the kernel-hardened package and the lack of UKI (Unified Kernel Image) support.
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Question about immutability
Other hardening guides mention a Unified Kernel Image as another measure to further improve security. Unfortunately, once more, this is (currently) not supported on Fedora Silverblue. I haven't seen it being done on openSUSE Aeon either. Though, once again, I'd love to be corrected!
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Does an immutable system really provide enhanced security?
The fedora crew is working on it through ostree though, so both fedora Silverblue and flatpak will be getting it (as well as true immutability) in the future: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/2867
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Silverblue/ Kinoite - real-life shortcomings?
Aside from what has already been mentioned, Unified Kernel Image isn't supported (yet).
What are some alternatives?
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
apt2ostree - Build ostree images based on Debian/Ubuntu
bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
apx - Apx is the Vanilla OS package manager. It’s meant to be simple to use, but also powerful with support to installing packages from multiple sources without altering the root filesystem.
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
mkosi - 💽 Build Bespoke OS Images
pkg2appimage - Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage
flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions