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awesome-immutable
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Flathub: One million active users and growing
Interesting article!
My takeaways:
>"The current solutions involve packaging entire alternate runtimes in containerized environments. Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, Docker, and Steam: these all provide an app packaging mechanism that replaces most or all of the system’s runtime libraries, and they now all use containerization to accomplish this."
[...]
>"All of these technologies are essentially building
an entire OS on top of another OS
just to avoid the challenges of backwards compatibility."
This is basically using containers to replace all system libraries -- to insure that a downloaded binary app always works.
From this point forward, we'll use the term "API" to represent not just Linux kernel syscalls, but the totality of all library calls (system and otherwise!) used by a given downloaded binary application!
Observation: API (in-)consistency (AKA "Stability") one Linux version to another, one Linux distro to another -- is the real problem!
That's the real cause!
Because everything else, everything else, is effect, not cause!
The containerization, the bloated "everything but the kitchen sink" downloads, are the effect of the problem of API (in-)consistency!
Phrased a simpler way -- there is absolutely NO guarantee of consistency between the libraries, system and otherwise, of any two Linux distros!
So if a binary app is to run on all Linux distros -- then it had better damn well better make sure that the exact specific version of all of the libraries that it needs -- are managed by it, not the host operating system!
Containers and bloated library downloads -- are (unfortunately) currently necessary to provide this!
Related:
"Linux Library Mismatch":
https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+library+mismatch
"DLL Hell" (the MS-Windows equivalent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
Software Engineering: Bertrand Meyer, "Design By Contract":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
API Contracts: "What is an API Contract?":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qM__ozdHCU
Eelcho Dolstra: "The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model":
https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf#page=11
Image-based Linux distributions and associated tools:
https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable
Spencer Baugh: "Managing Dependencies":
https://catern.com/posts/deps.html
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Hello everyone!
If you're simply in search of other immutable distros, then I would recommend you to look under the "Distributions" section on this page.
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What is the difference between Immutable Desktops and non Immutable Desktops?
The answer to that question is out of scope for what is sensible to write in a comment. Also, because we're mostly still exploring what it is or rather what we'd want it to be. But if you're really interested, then I'd suggest you to dive into this wonderful resource. You don't have to go through everything that's found within. However, I'm sure there's something in there that peaks your interest and you can go from there.
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Immutable Linux Distributions for Those Looking to Embrace the Future
Flatcar uses 2 partitions, A and B, you boot into one and then updates update the one that you're not booted into, when you reboot it it boots into the updated one. It's like Android: https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab
I maintain an awesome-list of immutable resources here with a collection of talks and presentations from the people making the stuff: https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable
However I'm currently focused on desktop stuff since the it's a fairly common pattern in cloud already, I should probably write it up.
Semi-related, a few of us have started a community around composable OCI fedora images, and one of our images is intended to be used as a home server built on CoreOS with ZFS, cockpit, and all the goodies you'd need. It's still fresh and we're looking for help if anyone's interested: https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore (Disclaimer: I helped start this project)
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What are good resources for silverblue ?
Some interesting links: https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable
- A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops
- Immutable image-based Linux desktops
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Hi, i installed the Fedora 37 Silverblue (Gnome) But DNF and YUM commands dont even exist there. what i made?
Found this page for you. It has lots of resources, including videos and guides, about all things Silverblue and other immutable Linux distros, and their tooling. Enjoy.
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What is best Distro/DE combo for productivity on ML Workstation
Note, I haven't tried these two distros myself, but I am strongly considering moving to such a system at the moment. Here is some reading material in case you're interested: https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable
- GitHub - castrojo/awesome-immutable: A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops
robotnix
- Immutable Linux Distributions for Those Looking to Embrace the Future
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Towards a reproducible F-Droid
danielfullmer/robotnix
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Error signing TrichromeChrome.apk when building OTA package
commit 660b23fb152874b6d237065045c78ceeb6ebdbf9 Author: Chirayu Desai Date: Fri Jun 24 01:41:28 2022 +0530 releasetools: Replace Trichrome fingerprint * Trichrome APKs depend on TrichromeLibrary, and they specify both package name and a certificate digest * We sign TrichromeLibrary and both dependent APKs with the same key, so we can simply make sure that the fingerprint matches the key the APK is being (re)signed with Based on: https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix/blob/master/modules/apps/chromium-trichrome-patcher.py Change-Id: I79f8c69787decd5abbb5d5513dee9bc357eb8814
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post home folders
You might be interested in https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix
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Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix
Just noting, using Nix it is possible to build an actual real deal Android image using Robotnix:
- https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix/
This is different from a non-Android Linux on Mobile devices, which is what Mobile NixOS aims to achieve :).
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Project End of Life
If you still want to do your own builds, I'd recommend looking at Robotnix (https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix). While it doesn't out of the box build on AWS like this, it's a way more sane build process and it would be easy enough to execute a build on any cloud provider.
- Wir schreiben für das c't-Magazin über Linux - fragt uns alles! [Beginn um 17 Uhr]
- Build Android (AOSP) Using Nix
- I wonder if we're ever going to see a mobile OS made with the same philosophy as Arch Linux.
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Add Android Auto to Calyx OS before flashing ROM
There are some tools already which support automated builds such as https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack and https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix - however they'll need work to support both CalyxOS and also Android Auto.
What are some alternatives?
arch-linux-installation-guide - An easy to follow Arch Linux installation guide. This guide will show you how to properly install Arch Linux on UEFI/BIOS systems, ext4/btrfs file systems; using systemd-bootloader/GRUB and systemd-networkd/NetworkManager for networking. These are the given examples but I have provided links to sections with the information necessary to install any 86_64 system
calyxos
bazzite - Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
AuroraStore
ucore - An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
sodalite - 🪨 A Pantheon experience for rpm-ostree [Moved to: https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite]
rattlesnakeos-stack - Build your own privacy and security focused Android OS in the cloud.
ublue - A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.
Pine64-Arch - :penguin: Arch Linux ARM for your PinePhone/Pro and PineTab/2
ostree-rs-ext - Rust library with higher level APIs on top of the core ostree API
haskell-nix - Nix and Haskell in production