blendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic
We're thrilled to unveil blendOS v4, a groundbreaking release that redefines blendOS as a highly-flexible, immutable and atomic variant of Arch Linux. blendOS retains the flexibility of traditional Linux distributions (unlike other immutable Linux distributions) thanks to its declarative nature. Of course, we continue to support packages from Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and other distributions, alongside Android application support. You can also use any desktop environment available in the Arch Linux repositories or AUR, or any of the offered pre-configured desktop environments (including KDE Plasma, MATE, XFCE and Budgie) through the tracks features implemented on blendOS v4 (more on that later).
v4 is also the first release of blendOS that is fully declarative, allowing you to have any packages, kernels or drivers from the Arch repos/AUR on a base Arch system, while shipping pre-configured GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE and Budgie tracks if you'd like not to deal with the hassle of setting everything up yourself.
The above configuration, for example, allows you to have a blendOS installation with GNOME, Firefox, the Caddy web server, and Visual Studio Code.
