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Opinions on immutable distros
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Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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In CoreOS (Silverblue),
/etc
,/var
and/home
(which is in fact a symlink towards/var/home
) are regular writable partitions, so your data, configs and personal files are not touched by the upgrade/rollback procedure.All the packages (and their dependencies) you've installed extra are also upgraded/rolledback when you do a system upgrade.
Fantastic. That's cool. Thank you 🙏