Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem)
by vmfunction on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:32AM
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>A prominent direction in the Linux distribution scene lately has been the concept of immutable desktop operating systems. Recent examples include Fedora Silverblue (2018) and Vanilla OS (2022). But, on my anecdotal understanding of the timelines concerning Linux distros, both are spiritual successors to CoreOS (2013).
Remember in the late 90's booting server off a CD-ROM was the thing.
Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem)
by hnarn on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:19AM
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Booting off USB sticks is still done all the time and it's (almost) literally the same thing. Doing it in combination with encrypted persistence support as available in Debian for example can be really nice.
Remember in the late 90's booting server off a CD-ROM was the thing.