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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by traverseda on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:57AM (#16015988)
It could go a long way towards getting people involved in FOSS systems development.

I think you could avoid a lot of those bricking issues using btrfs snapshots.

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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by deckar01 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:04PM (#16016057)
btrfs snapshots are the source of all of my OpenSUSE crashes. I'm not sure what the issue is, but eventually it fills up my disk silently with snapshots until the system grinds to a halt.
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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by krylon on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:54PM (#16016493)
I have three machines that run OpenSuse, my desktop and two laptops (well, one laptop and one very low-end IdeaPad).

On my desktop, I run into the same problem as you; I think my system partition is just a little small. On the laptops, I have not had any trouble with snapshots.

I do like the idea, though - if an update breaks anything, just roll back to the last working state. Windows did this 15 years ago, it was about time Linux distros started catching up.

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