VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux

Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by LoganDark on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:18AM (#34195797)

Fedora Silverblue is probably one of our favorite Linux distributions nowadays. It was also our first experience with GNOME Wayland and we don't regret it.

It killed our USB stick in just days, though

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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by T3OU-736 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:12AM (#34196568)

I have found IODD 2531 (there are likely others) to be super-useful for that sort of a thing.

It presents an ISO (using the rocker on the side as a selector) from its HDD as a bootable CDROM target, and still exposes the HDD/SSD as a separate target.

So, it is possible to boot what is an RO OS image, and use the HDD/SSD target as an overlay, but because it is not flash memory, the wear issue is far less of a problem.

And, since it is presenting ISO images as boot targets, it is possible to (relatively) easily test upgrades while keeping the overlays separate.

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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by vaylian on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:05PM (#34198950)

> It killed our USB stick in just days, though

Too many writes?

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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by joshspankit on Sunday January 01, 2023 @08:06PM (#34213023)

Also curious as it is wildly against intuition for an immutable install to do a lot of writes (or even a lot of reads)

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