this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
114 points (99.1% liked)

Linux

5280 readers
627 users here now

A community for everything relating to the linux operating system

Also check out [email protected]

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Ategon
anzo
dwraf_of_ignorance
114
KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap (linuxiac.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/linux
27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] FizzyOrange 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, so that's sort of customising the image somehow? Does it use an overlay FS or something?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The silverblue docs explain it best:

When a package is installed with rpm-ostree, a new OS image is composed by adding the RPM payload to the existing OS image, and creating a new, combined image.