Ubuntu installers?

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 13:16, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> You know, sincerely, I think it might just happen Liam.

You misunderstand me.

I definitely think it will _happen_.

I don't think it will happen _this year_.

I am not claiming to be an expert in the area, but I have done quite a
lot of research and I have written quite extensively about this
subject.

About packaging:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/26/linux_software_installation/

About how packaging formats affect distro design:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/03/nixos_linux_os_design/

SUSE's next-gen OS is 100% containerized with an immutable filesystem,
using its standard RPM packages via a special Zypper that only
installs things during reboots
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/suse_adaptable_linux_platform/

So are Red Hat's Kinoite and Silverblue, which use OStree for OS
updates and Flatpak for apps:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/fedora_36_released/

The Debian-based EndlessOS works the same way.

Ubuntu too has an immutable distro, using Snap exclusively:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/ubuntu_core_22/

The point is that there is a _lot_ of experimentation going on in this
area. We are in the relatively early days of this stuff, not the late
era when it's nearly all over.

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