BlendOS 3 in development: Promised support for nine Linux distributions, no repository updates

According to news on June 6, developer Rudra Saraswat said that the immutable distribution blendOS 3 system is under development and promised to provide new features for users of the immutable distribution, such as support for 9 Linux distributions and how to update without using a package repository.

blendOS distributions promise to mix Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu, and blendOS 2, released in April this year, uses WayDroid and promises to run Android applications.

One of the biggest changes in blendOS 3 is a new way to perform system updates without using a package repository. Starting with blendOS 3, existing blendOS installations will be updated with the latest ISO image instead of downloading individual packages from the repository for better stability.

blendOS 3 also comes with new Akshara tools that allow users to install custom packages onto overlays that will be preserved and rebuilt with the new system base so that your blendOS installation remains unchanged.

Additionally, if you are concerned about large downloads during an update, blendOS 3 and later will use the zsync file transfer procedure to greatly reduce the size of the update by only downloading the difference between the previous version and the current version .

blendOS 3 will also support more containerized distributions, including AlmaLinux OS, Rocky Linux, Kali Linux, Crystal Linux and Debian GNU/Linux. Support for Fedora Linux and Ubuntu has been updated to the latest versions, such as Fedora Linux 38 and Ubuntu 23.04.

blendOS 3 version also includes Assemble tools, which will be used to build packages and images, and can also be used to build blendOS blends, as well as support for more desktop environments and window managers.

blendOS 3 is now available for public beta testing (IT House attaches download address), and also supports downloading of GNOME and KDE Plasma live ISO images.

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