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Comment by cassianoleal

16 hours ago

IncusOS is another - read-only root FS, interactions with the system exclusively through the Incus API, no package manager, blue-green OS updates (à la Steam Deck / Home Assistant OS).

Talos on IncusOS is likely a very interesting stack that I intend to play with hopefully in the near future.

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/docs/main/

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NekkoDroid  4 hours ago

> blue-green OS updates

First time I heard someone call it blue-green OS updates instead of A/B OS updates.

  • cassianoleal  3 hours ago

    Heh fair enough!

    Same concept, I guess. I'm a platform engineer / SRE, and blue/green is a more common way of describing that way of deploying applications so I didn't even consider it could have a different name on the OS layer.

c7b  13 hours ago

How would you say it compares to nixOS?

  • abrookewood  13 hours ago

    They are vastly different. Incus is aimed at providing a minimal, immutable Os for the hosting of VMs & containers. nixOS provides a full linux OS that is reproducible and declarative.