Contributors developing the Aeon Desktop are happy to announce a major milestone with the launch of Release Candidate 2 (RC2) images. Within the last 24 hour...
Looks like most of the improvements have nothing to do with GNOME, so they should also probably impact Kalpa (the KDE MicroOS distro).
I'm particularly interested in these developments because I'm going to upgrade the CPU on my NAS (old Phenom II -> Ryzen 1700), and I'm considering reinstalling w/ MicroOS. It's currently running on an old SATA SSD, but NVMe drives are getting so cheap that it's probably worth an upgrade.
I'm thinking of switching to Aeon from Tumbleweed, but i always wonder how you would work with cli tools, like LaTeX or various compilers. Is distrobox the way to go? Does it work seamless?
Same. I think you just use transactional-update instead of zypper when you're ready to install something permanently. I don't know what the package selection looks like though.
But anything that's going to need frequent updates should probably be installed outside of transactional-update. For compilers, I generally use some kind of compiler version manager (e.g. rustup for Rust), which would be outside of the immutable base.
The main benefit is that the base system is immutable, which should make it much more reliable. So to get new software, instead of doing a zypper install ..., you'd leave the base system alone and only install packaged apps (e.g. flatpaks). That way you don't get conflicts between package versions and upgrades can be predictable.
I don't have direct experience with it, so I don't know how well that works in practice. But I definitely like the idea of using it for my NAS, which doesn't need a lot of updates. It currently runs Leap, but MicroOS should be a relatively straight-forward switch.
Excellent news about Aeon and the development of an own installer. The last time I installed Aeon it didn't allow automatic user login, is this possible anymore? Thanks