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Re:A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: gener... by cassianoleal on Saturday May 17, 2025 @07:24AM (#44013510)
I wholeheartedly agree with you. This is one of the most bizarre arguments against it that I've ever come across.

And that's even before you realise it's based on fiction:

> Home Assistant Operating System is not based on a regular Linux distribution like Ubuntu.

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system

There is no apt or any other package manager on HAOS.

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Re:A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: gener... by pbasista on Saturday May 17, 2025 @09:58AM (#44014387)
Yes, you are right. There is one more abstraction layer.

Home Assistant Operating System uses Buildroot which uses Docker to run container with Home Assistant Supervisor. And only that container is Debian-based [0].

[0] https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/blob/0c75...

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Re:A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: gener... by cassianoleal on Saturday May 17, 2025 @11:36AM (#44015055)
And that's entirely inconsequential, since it's in an immutable container where `apt` will never be used.
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