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.

  • jokro@feddit.de
    3·
    6 months ago

    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?

    • sugar_in_your_teaOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      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.