Debian. I distro-hopped a lot but I always return to it. It’s like a kit you can turn into anything you want. As stable, bleeding edge, minimal or full-featured as you want, for all kinds of devices, with great third-party support and documentation.
Currently I run a minimal, stable Gnome system with a newer kernel from backports and Flatpaks for my apps.
The only thing it isn’t good at is immutability and filesystem snapshots. Both are possible to set up, but it’s an involved process, and I’d rather depend on regular backups.
The only thing it isn’t good at is immutability and filesystem snapshots. Both are possible to set up, but it’s an involved process, and I’d rather depend on regular backups.
Is it? I guess you need mutable + persistant mount for /var and one for /home.
/tmp is already tmpfs by default. All you then have to do is make the other mount points ro in your fstab.
(The answer is to write a script that mounts / rw, runs the upgrade, then mounts it ro again. But figuring out the edge cases isn’t something I want to get into.)
This is part of the maintenance.
The workflow here would differ depending on numerous factors. An automated update sounds like a bad idea.
All I was saying is that setting debian up for immutability is more straightforward. How you maintain the os from there should already be known to someone opting into it.
Debian. I distro-hopped a lot but I always return to it. It’s like a kit you can turn into anything you want. As stable, bleeding edge, minimal or full-featured as you want, for all kinds of devices, with great third-party support and documentation.
Currently I run a minimal, stable Gnome system with a newer kernel from backports and Flatpaks for my apps.
The only thing it isn’t good at is immutability and filesystem snapshots. Both are possible to set up, but it’s an involved process, and I’d rather depend on regular backups.
Is it? I guess you need mutable + persistant mount for /var and one for /home. /tmp is already tmpfs by default. All you then have to do is make the other mount points ro in your fstab.
And how do you then run apt upgrade?
(The answer is to write a script that mounts / rw, runs the upgrade, then mounts it ro again. But figuring out the edge cases isn’t something I want to get into.)
This is part of the maintenance. The workflow here would differ depending on numerous factors. An automated update sounds like a bad idea.
All I was saying is that setting debian up for immutability is more straightforward. How you maintain the os from there should already be known to someone opting into it.