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2024-02-09 |
Fedora announces Atomic Desktops |
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The Fedora project includes many spins of the distribution. These spins often provide alternative desktop environments or focus on specific tasks. Some spins use atomic package management and this last category is getting its own special designation: Fedora Atomic Desktops. "We are happy to announce the creation of a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic Desktops! As Silverblue has grown in popularity, we've seen more of our mainline Fedora Linux spins make the jump to offer a version that implements rpm-ostree. It's reached the point where it can be hard to talk about all of them at the same time. Therefore we've introduced a new brand that will serve to simplify how we discuss rpm-ostree and how we name future atomic spins." There are currently four atomic spins: Silverblue (GNOME), Kinoite (Plasma), Sway Atomic, and Budgie Atomic.
The Fedora Magazine article also points out that "atomic" is more accurate, in Fedora's case, than the term immutable: "This nice branding term is also a more accurate way of talking about how rpm-ostree works. Fedora Atomic spins are not actually immutable. There are ways to get around the read-only aspects of the implementation even though it is much harder. The nature of the OS, where updates are only implemented when they successfully build and you can rollback or rebase between core host systems, is better described by atomicity than immutability." |
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