LWN: Comments on "Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers"

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ceplm — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:31:32 +0000

It is possible, although not advisable, but if you have to `sudo transactional-update -c -d shell` is still around.

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Clozure — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:58:42 +0000

problem with vbext is that it's in fact not a RPM but something akin to an AppImage and their rules prevent redistribution of it being repackaged in a RPM. Arch doesn't care, PKGBUILD from AUR just spits out the pkg, but other distros aren't smart like that.

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jzb — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:55:34 +0000

I haven't tried that. I've installed other third-party RPMs on rpm-ostree distributions, so it should be possible -- but I don't know if the VBE pack has any specific issues. If you're willing to fuss with it, I bet the community around Fedora Atomic/Silverblue or the UBlue/Bluefin folks would be happy to try to help you on their forums / mailing lists / whatever.

Or stick with regular distros for a bit longer - there's so much work going on in that area, it's bound to get easier as time goes on.

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Clozure — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:34:24 +0000

immutable image based distros are fine until one needs to install VirtualBox extension pack, which then causes #problems.

man missing

jzb — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:13:10 +0000

Ah, good to know. Thanks for the comment! I look forward to trying it out again after it's reached GA status. Many interesting things happening in the image-based/"immutable" desktop space.

man missing

sysrich — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:22:37 +0000

man missing is actually a bug - unlike MicroOS, Aeon SHOULD have man installed by default - it does have the manpages on there

It will be fixed

As for the "too minimal" suggestions - the Aeon firstboot wizard does have a "Customise" button to add a lot of suggested software, such as PDF viewers

Amusing...

Heretic_Blacksheep — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:09:00 +0000

"System-tinkerers need not apply."

This made me chuckle.

documentation containers

jzb — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:11:43 +0000

A local container, such as registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/distrobox:latest -- still requires installing man, man-pages, etc. but probably better than layering the packages using transactional-update.

documentation containers

ceplm — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:27:48 +0000

> Probably the best way to deal with that is to create a Distrobox container to do one's work in, though having the Distrobox man pages available would be helpful when doing so.

You mean https://manpages.opensuse.org/ ? Or one of those containers you can run locally https://registry.opensuse.org/cgi-bin/cooverview?srch_ter....* (source https://github.com/thkukuk/rpm2docserv/)?