There’s been a proposal for Fedora Linux to become a new Fedora immutable variant and now it’s been approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) to happen for the Fedora 39 cycle.

  • telemachuszero
    2•2 years ago

    Fedora’s immutable variants are more flexible than SteamOS 3 currently is.

    Fedora supports package layering (and the layered packages are reapplied on system image updates), you can pin multiple deployments and switch between them, and the ostree managed /etc is more advanced than the overlayfs setup that SteamOS uses.

    SteamOS’s simpler approach is perfectly fine for its intended purpose though.

    • Flaky
      1•2 years ago

      Thanks for letting me know! I’ve got a lot of experience with SteamOS but not so much the immutable Fedoras. Should give them a try in the future.