blendOS

Some minor (or major, if you've been waiting for them) updates:

Checksums are now publicly available (see https://blendos.co/download/ for verification instructions).

The multilib repository is now enabled. To enable it on existing installs, update your system once, add your multilib-reliant packages, then update again.

akshara has been updated.

(Was posted on other sites a month ago but forgot to post it here)

Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic: We're thrilled to announce the stable release of blendOS v4! You can now define your system through a single YAML file ('/system.yaml') with full support for packages from the Arch Linux repos and AUR, while continuing to be able to use Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/.../Android containers to run software not available on Arch Linux.

Custom desktop environments, kernels and other system packages are all supported with v4, through simple modifications to /system.yaml!

Download: https://blendos.co/download/

Release notes: https://blendos.co/blog/2024/06/05/blendos-v4-released-arch-linux-made-immutable-declarative-and-atomic/

The first v4 testing ISO is now out!

Quoting Rudra on Discord:

Aside from it being declarative and atomic, it now has a dedicated first-setup app that allows you to create users following the installation of the system, unlike previous iterations where it was a part of the system installer. It ships with GNOME 45 out-of-the-box, but just like with the alpha, you can change the desktop environment in the /system.yaml file and update your system from the 'System' app. The default GNOME dash is a lot less cluttered now (new default-gnome track). You can also include any custom packages or even build your own system with your own packages, giving you a nearly vanilla Arch Linux installation but immutable and atomic!

We've now implemented three-way /etc merges (similar to ostree), therefore making /etc mutable and allowing you to edit package configuration. Similarly, /usr/local too is now mutable so that you can install any themes or custom-built applications system-wide.

This is still a beta release, so not everything is finished. There are no system or user tools anymore, and the default DE is GNOME (this can be changed post-install).

You now have to use system.yaml, so follow my post-install guides here: https://asterisk.lol/blog/blend_v4/#post-install (soon to be on the new docs)

If you'd like to download it, you can get the ISO from the following mirrors:

Google Drive

Sahilister's Mirror

Qiwi

You can also get torrents for it from our FossTorrents page: https://fosstorrents.com/distributions/blendos/#downloads

Also, another reminder is that this is still a testing release. Things are unfinished!

This is on a uefi system. I do manual partitioning and select fat32 drive with 1g for Boot and a 100gb brtfs partition for System.

I have Fedora, Endeavour and PopOS installed on the same drive in different partitions and they all show up in the boot menu and boot just fine. Blendos doesn't show up. I've reinstalled several times and nothing.

That's all. Just got interested in BlendOS and Lemmy.world.

“sudo system install…path-to-guest-utilities-disk”

doesn’t seem to work

Do I need to take additional steps to install packages to the base OS general?