blendOS builders and Ubuntu Harmony maintainer Rudra Saraswat introduced these days the overall availability of blendOS 3 as every other primary replace to this Arch Linux-based immutable Linux distribution with some distinctive options.
blendOS 3 is right here to make stronger its talent to run alternative GNU/Linux distributions inside of blendOS by the use of Distrobox/Podman by means of including backup for a complete of 9 distros, together with Arch Linux, AlmaLinux OS, Crystal Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Kali Linux, Neurodebian Bookworm, Rocky Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
Any other primary unutilized detail in blendOS 3 is backup for at least 7 desktop environments, together with KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, and Deepin, and the power to simply and instantaneously transfer between the two of them with machine observe.
As well as, blendOS 3 provides backup for 10 container distributions and the Nix bundle supervisor, unutilized developer-friendly CLI utilities for machine and person operations, reproducible techniques (bins and dotfiles), in addition to a unutilized solution to appearing machine updates with out the usage of a bundle repository.
“Unlike traditional Linux distributions, blendOS uses ISOs for updates, with your system being rebuilt on an update. Thanks to zsync, the update download size usually hovers around 10-100 MiBs, contrary to what you might have assumed,” explains Rudra Saraswat.
blendOS already supported Android apps out-of-the-box by the use of WayDroid, however the unutilized let go makes putting in extra apps simply by means of merely double-clicking on APK, DEB, RPM, or pkg.tar.zst binary information to put in them right into a container. The devs be aware the truth that for APK information you are going to first want to initialize Android app backup from the blendOS Settings app.
If you wish to give it a effort, blendOS 3 (codename Bhatura) is to be had for obtain presently from the legitimate website online that includes the fresh KDE Plasma 5.27.6 LTS, GNOME 44.2, Xfce 4.18, LXQt 1.3.0, Cinnamon 5.8, MATE 1.26, and Deepin editions.
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