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| 2023-03-07 |
Vanilla OS shifts its base to Debian |
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The Vanilla OS project ships an Ubuntu-based operating system with an immutable filesystem. Or at least it did, for the first version of Vanilla OS. The second version of Vanilla will be based on Debian's rolling development branch which is called Sid. "After discussions and considerations, we decided to move away from Ubuntu and base our distribution on Debian Sid. For this reason, we changed the version name and codename, starting with 2.0 Orchid. We have decided to use Orchid as the codename, as Vanilla derives from Orchids. There are a few reasons we switched to Debian Sid: It is closer to a vanilla experience than in Ubuntu. There were efforts to revert Canonical's opinionated workflow, but it was time-consuming. It forced us to focus on reverting these changes. Ubuntu provides a modified version of the GNOME desktop, which does not match how GNOME envisions its desktop. One of the high-level goals of Vanilla OS is to be as vanilla as possible, so we reverted many of these changes to reach that goal.
There is no strong opinion on application distribution. Snap is the primary method to get apps on Ubuntu. Based on our testing and many sources online, there are a lot of issues that Snap hasn't addressed currently, like slow startups, centralization, etc. We prefer to push open and cross-organization efforts, like Flatpak. Our switch to Debian Sid will also address a core issue brought to us by many in our community, that most native applications installed in apx's Ubuntu container are a Snap transitional package, which doesn't work inside the container...." The project's announcement offers additional details. |
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