KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap

Nemeski ( @neme@lemm.ee ) · 5 months ago

KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap

e8d79 ( @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ) · edit-2 5 months ago

What if I want to install a package that isn’t already installed and isn’t available as a Flatpak/Snap?

Then you just layer it.

FizzyOrange ( @FizzyOrange@programming.dev ) · 5 months ago

Interesting, so that’s sort of customising the image somehow? Does it use an overlay FS or something?

e8d79 ( @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ) · 5 months ago

The silverblue docs explain it best:

When a package is installed with rpm-ostree, a new OS image is composed by adding the RPM payload to the existing OS image, and creating a new, combined image.