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Re:Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and e... by GordonS on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:18PM (#31758000)
I took a quick look at your landing page, and I've got to say it doesn't do that great a job of telling me what it is or how it works.

Are you able to provide a short summary, and maybe compare it to Ubuntu Core and BalenaOS?

Would it be suitable for shipping appliances? How do you folks make money?

Thanks :)

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Re:Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and e... by andrewshadura on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:07PM (#31760053)
It is a Debian derivative distribution with a stabilised subset of packages and a recent LTS kernel. Target images use non-GPL-3 software, which some industries require. It also comes with infrastructure for building images, atomic updates and so on.

There's a lot of concept documents on the website going into details on those.

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Re:Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and e... by andrewshadura on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:10PM (#31760071)
When using OSTree, you can build images using regular packages installed with apt, and then deploy them atomically while allowing to rollback the update if necessary. Alternatively you can choose to use Flatpak to deploy applications.
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Re:Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and e... by andrewshadura on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:10PM (#31760074)
As for money, we have paying customers.
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