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Vanilla OS will be launched on July 28th (i.ibb.co.com)

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~As always, if you upload an image as post content, then at least link to the project in the post body: https://vanillaos.org Not because its hard to type, its just good practice in my opinion. Gets more true the more complicated the links get, BTW. /rant over~~

Here is the blog post about the beta: https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2024-01-30/vanilla-os-2-orchid-beta-is-here
A video about this distribution (1 year ago before VanillaOS 2) by Brodie: YouTube or through Invidious He also has an interview, but I'm too lazy to search for right now. If you are interested, search for his other channel called "Tech Over Tea" and then look for the vanilla os interview.

In short, this distribution is based on Distrobox, which is a manager to install applications from various other distributions. So it comes with a package manager, that is actually managing Distrobox. The cool thing about Distrobox is, that you can install packages from Arch or Ubuntu and they are all sandboxed in their environment. But you can "export" those apps, so that it integrates into your actual host system. BTW its not emulation, its sandboxed like Flatpak is in example.

I'm curious about this OS for a very long time. But to me it complicates stuff a bit over a regular OS. I'm not ready for Distrobox, but love the concept it has. If I was on Debian, then this would be a whole lot more interesting to me. But when I think about, its probably not bad for developers too. Maybe I'll get into it someday.