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Last Update: 2024-12-03 23:57 UTC

blendOS is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution which automates installing software from supported distributions (Arch, Fedora, and Ubuntu) into containers. blendOS tries to make software management in across containers feel native and provides access to the user's home directory for each container.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 90 (126), 6 months: 96 (131), 3 months: 95 (135), 4 weeks: 106 (126), 1 week: 86 (131)

Average visitor rating: 4.5/10 from 10 review(s).

blendOS Summary
Distribution blendOS
Home Page https://blendos.co/
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User Forums --
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Documentation https://blendos.co/faq/#the-language-i-want-isnt-there
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Bug Tracker https://github.com/blend-os/blendOS/issues
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 • 2023-07-08: Distribution Release: blendOS 3
 • 2023-04-22: Distribution Release: blendOS 2023.04.22
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Feature 160277e6 3
bhatura		 2023.04.22
Release Date 2024-09-26 2023-07-08 2023-04-22
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 2200-2300 2800-3100 2800-3100
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop GNOME Cinnamon, Deepin, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, Xfce GNOME, KDE Plasma
Package Management Flatpak, Pacman Flatpak, Pacman Flatpak, Pacman
Release Model Rolling Rolling Rolling
Office Suite -- -- --
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes
Asian Language Support      
Full Package List 160277e6 3 2023.04.22
Package 160277e6 3
bhatura		 2023.04.22
abiword (3.0.6) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.14) 1.2.12 1.2.9 1.2.8
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- -- --
bash (5.2.37) 5.2 5.1 5.1
bind (9.20.8) 9.20.2 9.18.16 9.18.13
chromium (135.0.7049.114) -- -- --
cups (2.4.12) -- 2.4.6 --
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.3-P1 4.4.3-P1 4.4.3-P1
e2fsprogs (1.47.2) 1.47.1 1.47.0 1.47.0
firefox (138.0) 130.0.1 114.0.2 112.0.1
freetype (2.13.3) 2.13.3 2.13.1 2.13.0
gcc (15.1.0) 14.2.1 13.1.1 --
gimp (3.0.2) -- -- --
glibc (2.41) 2.40 2.37 2.37
gnome-shell (48.1) 47.0 44.2 43.4
gnucash (5.11) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.59) -- -- --
grub (2.12) 2.12 -- --
gtk (4.18.4) 4.16.2 4.10.4 4.10.1
httpd (2.4.63) 2.4.62 2.4.57 2.4.57
inkscape (1.4.1) -- -- --
k3b (25.04.0) -- -- --
kmod (34.2) 33 30 30
krita (5.2.9) -- -- --
LibreOffice (25.2.2) -- -- --
linux (6.14.4) 6.10.10 6.3 6.2.11
Package 160277e6 3
bhatura		 2023.04.22
lxqt-panel (2.2.0) -- -- --
mariadb (11.7.2) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.28.2) -- -- --
mesa (25.0.4) 24.2.3 23.1.3 23.0.2
mysql (9.3.0) -- -- --
nautilus (48.1) 47.0 44.2.1 43.3
NVIDIA (570.144) 560.35.03 535.54.03 530.41.03
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- --
openjdk (24) -- -- --
openssh (10.0p1) 9.9p1 9.3p1 9.3p1
openssl (3.5.0) 3.3.2 3.1.1 3.0.8
perl (5.40.2) 5.40.0 5.36.1 5.36.0
php (8.4.6) -- -- --
plasma-desktop (6.3.4) -- 5.27.6 5.27.4
postfix (3.10.2) -- -- --
postgresql (17.4) -- -- --
Python (3.13.3) 3.12.6 3.11.3 3.10.10
qt (6.9.0) -- 5.15.10 5.15.9
samba (4.22.1) 4.21.0 4.18.3 4.18.2
systemd (257.5) 256.6 253.5 253.3
thunderbird (137.0.2) -- -- --
vim (9.1) -- -- --
vlc (3.0.21) -- -- --
wayland (1.23.1) 1.23.1 1.22.0 1.22.0
xfdesktop (4.20.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.16) 21.1.13 21.1.8 21.1.8

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Version: 2023.04.22
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-08-02
Votes: 2


 Trying to run as a live distro from an 8GB USB stick.
The boot GUI started OK and began loading the OS as expected.
What followed was the usual torrent of process notifications until:
[ OK ] started session 1 of user Blend
;
;
;
[ OK ] started session 258 of user Blend
[ OK ] finished refresh pacman mirrorlist with Reflecta.
[ OK ] reached target multi-user system
[ OK ] reached target graphical interface.

This was followed by many minutes of flashing screen, which after it stopped was followed by an endlessly flashing cursor.

So; not so clever.

Format USB stick and try something else.


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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-08
Votes: 5


 This is one of the most revolutionary distros for years!
Great work done by developers and it will be only better and better :)
KDE works like a charm, everything is so fast, yet so stable and secure. Mix of packages from Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch is like Linux user dream.

My PC
I5 10210u
16GB of RAM DDR4
256 NVme SSD

Can't wait for new releases. As for now everything works like a boss. I was not a fan of immutable distros but BlendOS made me change my opinion. I like it,and with a few scripts I can customize it how I want because KDE is on board


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Version: 2023.04.22
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-12
Votes: 1


 This is very cool immutable and blending, even android apps work fine!

I hope they keep on working on this and updating and fine tuning, yay works too after installing, even without container, I like the arch base :-)

I wish the developers good luck en good fortune and hope they have time to work on this fine distribution, it seems to work with overlays for the immutable part, some more explanation would be fine ;-)

They say you can also build your own DE .iso, I could not find that yet, but l will keep on looking






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