Meet our issue board
Yes, we finally have a simple and coherent way to keep track of progress on various issues related to this distro:
git.blendos.co/groups/blendOS/-/boards
(also under Plan > Issue Boards on the group page)
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Our Gitlab migration is now underway
Photo by Sébastien Goldberg on Unsplash
After a long wait, we've begun the migration process. All important repositories are on our Gitlab server, and push mirror to Github.
Github PRs will no longer be accepted. Github Issues are depreceated and will be disabled across all repositories.
The Github repos will remain as read only mirrors for backup and discovery purposes.
Our Minecraft server is now live (again)!
Shot on the server with Photon and Iris.
TL;DR: Vanilla 1.21.5 SMP now live at smp.blendos.co (smp.blendos.co:33372 for Bedrock users), apply here: tally.so/r/wkrDed
Akshara Updates!
Shoutout to our overworked servers and runners.
Thanks to the hard work of @askiiart, and Rudra finally rebuilding the repo packages, the current versions of akshara and blend-inst have some new fixes!
The guides system is now online!
You can now write community guides for blendOS.
Making this website
The website you are looking at right now is an amalgamation of time and effort over multiple iterations and docs frameworks. I intend to explore the history and timeline of this website, because it's actually rather interesting.
blendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic
Download it here: blendos.co/download/
We're thrilled to unveil blendOS v4, a groundbreaking release that redefines blendOS as a highly-flexible, immutable and atomic variant of Arch Linux. blendOS retains the flexibility of traditional Linux distributions (unlike other immutable Linux distributions) thanks to its declarative nature. Of course, we continue to support packages from Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and other distributions, alongside Android application support. You can also use any desktop environment available in the Arch Linux repositories or AUR, or any of the offered pre-configured desktop environments (including KDE Plasma, MATE, XFCE and Budgie) through the tracks features implemented on blendOS v4 (more on that later).
blendOS v4 Alpha
We're glad to announce the first alpha release of blendOS v4!
It's the first release of blendOS that is fully declarative, allowing you to have any packages, kernels or drivers on a base Arch system of your liking, while shipping pre-configured GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE and Budgie images if you'd like not to deal with the hassle of setting everything up yourself.
blendOS v3 "Bhatura" is now available
blendOS v3 “Bhatura” has now been released, with a host of new features, including the ability to switch between 7 desktop environments with system track, seamless atomic background updates, support for 10 container distributions and Nix, reproducible systems (containers and dotfiles), new developer-friendly CLI utilities for system and user operations and a lot more.