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KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap (linuxiac.com)

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week 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.