New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu

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  • bedrocklinux-userland

    This tracks development for the things such as scripts and (defaults for) config files for Bedrock Linux

  • nearly

    A utility that allows you to toggle system immutability.

  • I was curious about this too, so went digging.

    The immutability is handled by "nearly", created for blendOS: https://github.com/blend-os/nearly

    (In turn, "nearly" is called by the "blend" package manager, e.g., "sudo nearly enter rw", "sudo nearly enter ro" - https://github.com/blend-os/blend/blob/main/blend)

    At the heart of "nearly" is toggling inode flag "FS_IMMUTABLE_FL" (equivalent to "chattr +i" / "chattr -i") on each file within specified directories (currently "/usr"): https://github.com/blend-os/nearly/blob/3bb6f662818545cba1eb...

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  • blend

    Package manager for blendOS (by blend-os)

  • I was curious about this too, so went digging.

    The immutability is handled by "nearly", created for blendOS: https://github.com/blend-os/nearly

    (In turn, "nearly" is called by the "blend" package manager, e.g., "sudo nearly enter rw", "sudo nearly enter ro" - https://github.com/blend-os/blend/blob/main/blend)

    At the heart of "nearly" is toggling inode flag "FS_IMMUTABLE_FL" (equivalent to "chattr +i" / "chattr -i") on each file within specified directories (currently "/usr"): https://github.com/blend-os/nearly/blob/3bb6f662818545cba1eb...

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