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Your data is out of date. Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fi

by curt15 1y ago

Your data is out of date. Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html.

lproven 1y ago
> Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html. Hang on. I have to say [[citation needed]] on this. I write about systemd regularly, and read Lennart's blog and Mastodon feed. As evidence, I did an in-depth on systemd 258 just a month or so ago: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/systemd_258_first_rc_here/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/systemd_258_first_rc_... I do not personally use GNOME or GNOME Boxes and I've never managed to get GNOME OS to so much as boot successfully in a hypervisor or on bare metal, and I've tried many times. But I don't think it adopts all these fancy features yet. ParticleOS does: https://github.com/systemd/particleos https://github.com/systemd/particleos But that's a separate distro. It's not GNOME OS. It's the testbed for the "fitting everything together" concepts. Adrian Vovk's CarbonOS did much of this: https://carbon.sh/ https://carbon.sh/ ... but it's dormant now. He wants to turn GNOME OS into something like that, as he has said: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/ https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-... And I have written about: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros... I am not aware it has happened yet, though.
- curt15 1y ago
  It was a relatively recent change [1]. Try the latest Gnome OS nightly ISO in a VM -- you'll see that they've (largely) implemented the partition scheme suggested in ParticleOS: root on btrfs, two partitions for /usr backed by dm-verity, new /usr images delivered using "systemd-sysupdate". [1]https://www.osnews.com/story/139696/gnome-os-is-switching-from-ostree-to-systemd-sysupdate/ https://www.osnews.com/story/139696/gnome-os-is-switching-fr...
  - lproven 1y ago
    Very interesting. Thanks. I will indeed have a look, ASAP -- but I hope this version is a little more tolerant of non-GNOME/non-RH hypervisors, or I won't get far...

by curt15 1y ago

lproven 1y ago

> Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html. Hang on. I have to say [[citation needed]] on this. I write about systemd regularly, and read Lennart's blog and Mastodon feed. As evidence, I did an in-depth on systemd 258 just a month or so ago: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/systemd_258_first_rc_here/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/systemd_258_first_rc_... I do not personally use GNOME or GNOME Boxes and I've never managed to get GNOME OS to so much as boot successfully in a hypervisor or on bare metal, and I've tried many times. But I don't think it adopts all these fancy features yet. ParticleOS does: https://github.com/systemd/particleos https://github.com/systemd/particleos But that's a separate distro. It's not GNOME OS. It's the testbed for the "fitting everything together" concepts. Adrian Vovk's CarbonOS did much of this: https://carbon.sh/ https://carbon.sh/ ... but it's dormant now. He wants to turn GNOME OS into something like that, as he has said: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/ https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-... And I have written about: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros... I am not aware it has happened yet, though.

curt15 1y ago
It was a relatively recent change [1]. Try the latest Gnome OS nightly ISO in a VM -- you'll see that they've (largely) implemented the partition scheme suggested in ParticleOS: root on btrfs, two partitions for /usr backed by dm-verity, new /usr images delivered using "systemd-sysupdate". [1]https://www.osnews.com/story/139696/gnome-os-is-switching-from-ostree-to-systemd-sysupdate/ https://www.osnews.com/story/139696/gnome-os-is-switching-fr...
- lproven 1y ago
  Very interesting. Thanks. I will indeed have a look, ASAP -- but I hope this version is a little more tolerant of non-GNOME/non-RH hypervisors, or I won't get far...