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Portable Formats and Inmutable Distros (lemmy.zip)

submitted 18 hours ago by overcast@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I feel like inmutable distros are in a quite good state nowadays, and while solutions like bootc and sysexts are not “mainstream” yet, it’s getting there

when it comes to getting non Flatpak packages, things get interesting, there are a lot of options, really

AppImages, statically linked binaries, tarballs, OCI containers, distrobox/toolbx, Homebrew, VMs, Nix even experimental formats like RunImages, AppBundles and FlatImages

if you need some non-system level package, you’ll have a way to use it yet, still it seems sort of chaotic “which one should I choose? how will I be able to easily manage them?”

GPM, dbin, Soar, AM… and the list goes on

and it’s okay, the so called cloud native approach is still evolving, so this fragmentation is expected so it’s nice to share opinions about this while we’re living this interesting phase any thoughts?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Looks to me like immutable only attracts the kind of developers/hackers who like to solve things by slapping another runtime on it.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

Immutable in the actual sense yes, it is basically a product and every other software is installed aside from it.

But you can also have better managed systems like nix or ostree, that reduce entropy or at least make it fully declarative so theoretically finding and reproducing issues is easy