Hi, Vanilla OS will be based on minimal Debian. They create immutable OS distribution with support for APX, APT, DNF, AUR, APK, ZYPPER, XBPS, NIX, DEB, RPM and Flatpak, Flathub, AppImage, GNOME Software, Package Manager.
I could not see why. The source is public. Do your changes and commit them. Even if it were not possible to make runtime modifications with these kind of systems (which is possible) these freedoms don’t mean that you are in all cases protected from a necessary re-compile.
One advantage would be that I could have core OS without modified files for years, because core files are read-only. I could whenever decide to remove applications and libraries and to have fresh OS without breaking the core system.
In addition to that, hashes of the core OS files of exact version could be compared to a known hashes of the version and tampering of read-only files could be detected (for example if someone boots live CD and modifies core files).
Or, hacked core files are replaced on each boot and no comparing of hashes is needed.
Are we talking about the same thing here? Immutable OS doesn’t mean that you’re restricted to modify, change, and improve your OS. It means the configuration of your OS can’t be changed, except when you really want to change it. If something broken, or you want to compare it to earlier configuration, you can go back.
If you’re using GNU here, even they made their own immutable system called Guix.
I call bs. It tries to fullfill multiple desires of nerds. The one Page has a Cookie Banner. The other Site does not load with uBlock. For me this is clearly scam or worse. [Talking about Vanilla OS]
