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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by nix23 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:14AM (#34195772)
> I'm surprised immutable systems aren't more popular.

ESXi on SD-Card's with the physical write-lock is pretty popular ;)

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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by 0x457 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:01PM (#34201643)
That's popular, but that's not an immutable OS we're talking about that's just a hypervisor. Routers also work like that, but we're clearly not talking about them.
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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by nix23 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:23AM (#34205205)
>but that's not an immutable OS we're talking about that's just a hypervisor.

Oh really Sherlock? Are you sure it's not a OS? ;)

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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by nix23 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:29PM (#34211155)
Then call it Universal OS, because ESXi and eCos/RTEM etc are OS's too.
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