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⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-06-16 · latest 2025-08-23

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  1. …and a separate /root quota. ("support configuring host to retain more than two deployments" https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/577#issuecomment... ) Theoretically there's a disk space advantage to container layers. Native…
  2. …I was looking at using CoreOS, I was somewhat disheartened that automatic reboots weren't built in: https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/2831 . Has this changed? I know zincati has maintenance window support, which would also be…
    comment by jpeeler · 2023-03-31 · in Immutable Linux distributions
  3. …[1] https://github.com/coreos/update_engine [2] https://github.com/coreos/zincati [3] https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree
    comment by kaeso · 2020-01-19 · in Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview
  4. …that you have. Or use custom kludge layers for updates: https://github.com/SUSE/zypper-docker https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree Making maintenance and updates harder is definitely a container specific problem.
  5. …that, and it was after CoreOS as a distro was a thing. rpm-ostree's first commit was Dec 21, 2013: https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/commit/958dfa435... https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-fourth-birthday CoreOS as a company was…
    comment by SEJeff · 2018-01-31 · in Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
  6. …but so does CoreOS or any normal distribution and they are not based on rpm-ostree at all. [0] https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree