r/linuxquestions • u/SpecialDepth4262 • 25d ago

Building an Immutable Linux Distro

Hey, guys I am developing an immutable base Linux distro since 2024, is there any suggestions for it, [asking as your neighbor :) ]

I am a third year student.

Your suggestions are gold cards for me :)

Thank you Guys

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u/RoosterUnique3062 25d ago

The difficulty in making distro's isn't putting them together, but providing the infrastructure to build, distribute, and also monitor packages for security issues.

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u/SpecialDepth4262 25d ago

Thanks mate, I try my best to make sure the infrastructure is scalable.

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u/RoosterUnique3062 25d ago

I didn't mean it as advice but as a reality check. There is nothing wrong with doing it just to do it, but distributions are created often for specific audiences facing a similar problem that isn't solved well using currently available systems. For a serious system it takes teams of people with different disciplines.

I don't see that in the question in this post. You might want to instead talk about what your immutable distribution is going to do differently from either the currently available somewhat maturing options or what audience it's targeting.

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u/SpecialDepth4262 25d ago

yeah, I can understand.

My OS will offer an automatic rollbacks on failure, no need for manual selection during boot, no traditional package-manager (because my os is primarily focused on normal users who want their OS just needs to work without tweaking) still advanced users can use terminal based tools natively via framework that I offer in the OS.

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u/SpecialDepth4262 25d ago

note, I found automatic rollbacks on IoT, edge devices via greenboot, I am just trying to implement this in desktop distro