Immutable Linux Distributions for Those Looking to Embrace the Future

• ublue

  98 135 0.7 Shell

  A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.

Well, with a dedicated Linux distro, you get it ootb and it's supported by people other than you.

Also with Silverblue, there's a mechanism for getting the base OS from a OCI container image (check out https://ublue.it/)

• robotnix

  14 562 6.8 Nix

  Build Android (AOSP) using Nix [maintainer=@danielfullmer,@Atemu]

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• awesome-immutable

  12 736 6.1

  A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops

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)

• ucore

  1 68 8.3 Shell

  An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included

  

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)

• nixpkgs

  973 15,656 10.0 Nix

  Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  

• rpm-ostree

  47 813 9.6 C

  ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering

  

Whenever I was looking at using CoreOS, I was somewhat disheartened that automatic reboots weren't built in: https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/2831. Has this changed? I know zincati has maintenance window support, which would also be nice to have.

• distrobox

  402 8,927 9.6 Shell

  Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

Have you played with distrobox at all?

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/r...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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