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Fedora Onyx To Become An Official Fedora Linux Immutable Variant (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's been a proposal for Fedora Linux to become a new Fedora immutable variant and now it's been approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) to happen for the Fedora 39 cycle.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora's immutable variants are more flexible than SteamOS 3 currently is.

Fedora supports package layering (and the layered packages are reapplied on system image updates), you can pin multiple deployments and switch between them, and the ostree managed /etc is more advanced than the overlayfs setup that SteamOS uses.

SteamOS's simpler approach is perfectly fine for its intended purpose though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for letting me know! I've got a lot of experience with SteamOS but not so much the immutable Fedoras. Should give them a try in the future.