BlendOS V3 “Bhatura” Beta: New immutable version available
Taking advantage of the fact that, yesterday and just a few hours ago, we have published an interesting article on the immutability of operating systems, where we also made known 12 of the best known and used immutable operating systems, among which was mentioned BlendOS; Today we will address the news of the launch of "BlendOS V3 "Bhatura" Beta".
And it is that this latest release has been released a few days ago (01-Jun-2023), and of course, he himself brings interesting news that are worth knowing, whether or not we are current users of it.
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About the release of BlendOS V3 “Bhatura” Beta
What's New in BlendOS V3 “Bhatura” Beta
According to official announcement of this release, "BlendOS V3 "Bhatura" Beta" It has the following 10 novelties:
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- Deploying an installation ISO to run updates. Whose operation is based on the detection and comparison of timestamps with the aim of facilitating the reconstruction in an update.
- The use of a completely read-only (immutable) file system. It does, however, allow installation of system packages in an overlay using a new update daemon called Akshara.
- Using Zsync to greatly reduce the size of the update. In addition, it will only be possible to download the changes between a previous update and the current one, and it also includes support for switching between Desktop Environments.
- The development of a new tool called Assembler from scratch (Assemble From Scratch). Which, aims to act as a "Repo tool" similar to the philosophy of blendOS when creating packages and images. This in order to eliminate the need for a package repository.
- The new Akshara tool also allows you to install system drivers (packages). These are installed in a read-only overlay on top of blendOS. In this way, all these overlays are regenerated on each update.
- Container binary file names exposed on the host as {BINARY_NAME}.{CONTAINER_NAME} can now use their shortened {BINARY_NAME} names simply by adding an association in the blendOS configuration.
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- The display of a special dialog at login after a successful update. In such a way, to be able to distinguish between a normal start and the one that occurs after a new update.
- It shows an extremely smooth installation with a good partition guide, compared to the previous version. This, thanks to the fact that many errors in the installer were solved.
- It includes many drivers in the ISO file, so you most likely won't need to install any operating system packages manually with the Akshara tool.
- It does not yet have all its documentation ready, but it is expected to be ready for the stable version.
GNU/Linux distros compatible with BlendOS
Finally, and for those who might not know much about BlendOS, it is worth noting that, among GNU / Linux distributions that are considered compatible, that is, installable on BlendOS, there are the following: Arco, AlmaLinux 9, Cristal Linux, Debian, Fedora 38, Kali Linux (Rolling), Neurodebian Bookworm, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.04.
Y for more information about BlendOS you can always explore your official section on GitHub.
Summary
In short, BlendOS is a great free and open source project that is here to stay and is constantly growing in favor of users looking for immutable GNU/Linux Distros with new and interesting features. And this new version known as "BlendOS V3 "Bhatura" Beta" It will surely expand the capabilities of being able to enjoy in a single GNU/Linux Distro the benefits, features and applications of others. Therefore, without a doubt, we invite you to try it, so that you can tell us about your experience with it via comments.
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