Vanilla OS 2 "Orchid" released

[Posted July 31, 2024 by jzb]

Version 2.0 of the Vanilla OS image-based Linux distribution has been released. Dubbed "Orchid", Vanilla OS is now based on Debian Sid (prior versions were Ubuntu-based), allows creation of customized Linux environments, support for running Android applications using Waydroid, and many other improvements.

Debian Vanilla vs simple debian?

Posted Aug 7, 2024 12:03 UTC (Wed) by Herve5 (subscriber, #115399) [Link]

I'm a bit surprised seeing no reactions.
I'm considering switching my SO's system from Ubuntu to Debian (like me), but outside fleeing out of Shuttleworth area my objective indeed is robustness, and Vanilla immutability principle, for instance, seems to check efficiently the point.
What am I loosing here, vs a simple Debian installation?

OS 2

Posted Aug 7, 2024 23:58 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

Reading the title the first time around, I thought someone is trying to bring back IBM OS/2. Oh my, do I feel old now.