#immutabledistro — Public Fediverse posts

We now have a working appstream catalogue with data hosted at https://appstream.aerynos.dev/

Appstream is a cross-distribution collaboration effort to unify software metadata so it can be handled by Software Centres in a standardised way.

Having appstream working in AerynOS will allow us to further test packagekit as part of our ongoing effort to improve the user experience on AerynOS by making GUI tools available in place of mainly Command Line tooling.

Separately, exploratory work has begun looking to develop AerynOS as an immutable distribution. For context, AerynOS is currently an atomic distribution, but not yet immutable.

We have successfully used composefs to create an immutable image from a moss blit state which has successfully been mounted.

We would stress that this is very initial work and is helping the team to identify how this development worksteam should continue. By way of example, we may not use composefs and instead move to making our own eorfs images as moss already has it's own deduplicated hardlink cache.

All in all, these are some nice project updates, demonstrating our commitment to achieving our goals and working towards an eventual stable release of AerynOS.

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