GNOME OS is an experimental, immutable Linux distribution that ships the latest in-development GNOME Desktop, core applications and stack.
It serves as a reference for developers and testers.
It is designed around the modern systemd and GNU-based userland built from the Freedesktop SDK.
Initially, GNOME OS used a library and set of utilities called OSTree to deploy the root filesystem and manage updates, but later migrated to "systemd-sysupdate" which offers enhanced immutability, auto-updating, adaptability, factory reset, uniformity and other modernised security properties.
GNOME OS can be loaded as a live image in Boxes, VirtualBox, QEMU and other virtualization software, but it can also be installed on a standard x86_64 hardware.
The distribution does not support traditional package management.
However, additional software applications can be installed via the Flatpak utility which is supported out of the box.
It is only 2.2 GB image.
I am going to install it.
I could not install it.
It tries to take over my hard disk.
It does not have a Partition Table compatibility.
It's partition system is bizarre.
I tried to format a 32GB USB stick with 235MB of reserved portion.
It could not.
It erased two other USB sticks with two live images.
No harm done, I have those images stored in a NTFS partition.
I got Netrunner running in one of them and the other is free fot Testing any other image in the future.
If you are a newbie DO NOT try Gnome OS.
It is only 5 days old.
