blendOS: A Blend of Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, and Ubuntu

guest · Jan 26, 2023

An immutable operting system built around Distrobox and using the GNOME desktop environment.
By Marius Nestor - January 26, 2023

From the maintainer of Ubuntu Unity and the Unity desktop environment, here comes blendOS, a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to be the last distribution you’ll ever use, especially if you distro hope.
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While still in development, blendOS is here to offer you “a seamless blend of all Linux distributions,” as its creator wants to call it. blendOS is based on Arch Linux and GNOME on Wayland, but it lets you use apps from other popular distributions, such as Fedora Linux or Ubuntu.

This is possible because you can use the native package managers from Arch Linux (pacman – included by default), Fedora Linux (dnf), and Ubuntu (apt), which are included as containers using Distrobox/Podman. However, the DNF and APT package managers aren’t included in the live ISO image, nor blendOS’s own blend package manager.
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The Linux distribution also offers an immutable system for those who want to use a read-only file system for extra stability and reliability. It also follows a rolling release model, since it’s derived from Arch Linux.
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For now, blendOS only supports Arch Linux’s main repositories and AUR (Arch User Repository), the Fedora Rawhide repository, as well as the repositories of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or Ubuntu 22.10.

Configuring the system for the first time is easy with the included and user-friendly First Setup app.
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All in all, blendOS looks good and quite promising. But it has a specific target audience, namely distro hoppers. So if you really can’t decide between using Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, or Ubuntu, then blendOS is definitely for you, and you can try it right now by downloading it below or by visiting the official website.
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blendOS
Website (GitHub)
Download (Github - Releases)

23.01
Initial release
This is the first release of blendOS.
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Features

Immutability

Support for multiple DEs

Individual sessions for distros

Apps from any distribution

Use any package manager in a single shell

Flatpak support

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NormanF · Feb 16, 2023

VanillaOS already allows you to run all of them in containers.

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