
blendOS v3 "Bhatura" beta is now available
We're excited to announce the new beta release of blendOS, "Bhatura", with a range of exciting new features!
The only operating system you'll ever need. A seamless blend of all Linux distributions, Android apps and web apps.
Desktop environments supported by blendOS
blendOS ships the latest-and-greatest desktop environments, including GNOME 43.4 and KDE Plasma 5.27 without any modifications, giving you a vanilla experience, thanks to the Arch base!
GNOME is a fresh take on the Linux desktop environment, with a unique dash and app launcher. It also supports auto-grouping of apps on the basis of the operating system they belong to.
KDE Plasma is a Windows-like desktop environment, which includes a number of amazing apps, including Kdenlive and Krita. It is an excellent choice for users coming from Windows.
Features
Here are some of blendOS's features.
blendOS is an immutable operating system. However, unlike all other immutable OSes, it allows you to install system packages normally, thanks to an overlay system, that also allows you to roll back to existing snapshots.
You can use any of the hundreds of thousands of apps from any of the distributions (Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu) supported by blendOS.
You can use apt, dnf-3, pacman and yay all together from tha single blendOS shell, just like you'd use them on their native distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch respectively).
Create any distro container easily, install an app there and you can access it from your base OS as well. And so is the case for any installed binaries.
Install Android apps from your favorite app stores like F-Droid and the Aurora Store, and use them like native Linux apps, even with NVIDIA GPUs. This would also be extremely useful for Android app developers who can easily test their apps in Android Studio as though they were native Linux apps.
Simply use blendOS as a web operating system and install and use web apps just like desktop apps. You can also submit your own apps to the web store.
GNOME and KDE Plasma are the officially supported desktop environments and we have separate ISOs for them, but it's going to be really easy for you to submit your own remix of blendOS, with a desktop environment or window manager of your choice.
Any packages, including DEs get installed to a /usr overlay. So you aren't touching the main root file system.
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.
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We're excited to announce the new beta release of blendOS, "Bhatura", with a range of exciting new features!
We're excited to announce the new stable release of blendOS, "Avial", with a range of exciting new features!
We're excited to announce a range of exciting new features in the upcoming release of blendOS.
Can I install regular packages on blendOS?
Yes, you can, thanks to the overlay system blendOS has implemented without even having to reboot, unlike in other distributions which have tried to implement this. If anything goes wrong, you can easily rollback to the previous state snapshot.
What happens when I install the same package from multiple distributions? Would there be conflicts?
Nope, there are not going to be any conflicts. In fact, blendOS lets you control which container you would like to prioritize.
Can I use an app installed from a distribution on the base OS itself?
Indeed, any apps or CLI utils/binaries you install would be available instantaneously on the base OS itself, so for example, you could use a CLI tool installed in a container directly from the host's terminal, unlike other implementations such as Distrobox.