Topic: Immutable Linux distributions - ready for the future?

[stdevel]

A couple of years ago, first immutable Linux distributions were released. A lot of people assume that these type of Linux distributions will become the standard for desktops and servers sooner or later. In comparison with conventional distribtions, a lot of things change - especially regarding package management.

Agenda proposal

• Motivation
  • What makes immutable Linux distributions special?
  • Advantages / Disadvantages
• Distribtions
  • Fedora Silverblue / Kinoite
  • SUSE ALP
  • openSUSE MicroOS
  • Vanilla OS
  • elemental
• Technical differences
  • Image-based Linux
  • Rollback strategies
  • Package management
  • Filesystem layout
  • ostree and rpm-ostree
• Hands-on insights

Estimated duration: ~120 minutes.

[bagder]

Any proposal for a person/guest that we could invite to talk about the benefits etc of this technology?

[stdevel]

If I remember correctly, Neal Gompa was taking in some other podcasts. Beside this it should be easy to get someone from the Fedora project onboarded for this. For openSUSE MicroOS / SUSE ALP I can connect you with some SUSE engineers, if interested. :)

Hope this helps!