What's coming next in blendOS?
We're excited to announce a range of exciting new features in the upcoming release of blendOS...
A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.
Features
Here are some of blendOS's features.
blendOS is an immutable operating system. This means your filesystem is read-only, thus resulting in stable experience.
You can use any of the hundreds of thousands of apps from any of the distributions supported by blendOS (the creation of containers is managed by distrobox).
You can use apt/apt-get, dnf/yum, pacman and yay all together from the blendOS shell, just like you'd use them on their native distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch respectively).
GNOME's the officially supported desktop environment, but you can also choose other desktop environments such as KDE Plasma and XFCE at the time of installation (for users who're familar with the blendOS setup).
Besides the default session, you can also install a desktop environment from any of these distributions and use the distros in standalone sessions.
Flatpaks too are supported. You can install them through the Flathub Store included in blendOS.
Distributions supported in blendOS
Use apps or desktop environments from any of these distributions.
Install any app from the Fedora repositories, or experience the latest version of GNOME available in the repos.
Use any of the apps available in one of the largest package repositories, the AUR, or from the Arch repositories.
Want to use one of those apps exclusive to Ubuntu? No problem, blendOS has you covered.
$ blend install-de gnome # replace gnome with mate to install MATE, and add --distro [NAME] to specify a distro; default: fedora-rawhide
We've worked with the t2linux project to add support for T2 Macs (all Intel Macs made after 2018, as well as the iMac Pro) to blendOS.
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We're excited to announce a range of exciting new features in the upcoming release of blendOS...
Can the Flathub Store install apps directly, or does it just download flatpakrefs?
Yep, the Flathub Store installs apps directly (using Souk-Next behind the scenes), instead of downloading their flatpakrefs and requiring manual installation.
Does blendOS use pacman, or its own package manager?
Nope, blendOS uses blend, a package manager designed to work with multiple distributions. Although pacman can be used from a shell, it runs inside an Arch container.
How do I run system updates?
You can run 'blend system-update' to run system updates (unlike on Arch, 'pacman -Syu' will simply update the Arch container and will not update blendOS).
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