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Some minor (or major, if you've been waiting for them) updates:

Checksums are now publicly available (see https://blendos.co/download/ for verification instructions).

The multilib repository is now enabled. To enable it on existing installs, update your system once, add your multilib-reliant packages, then update again.

akshara has been updated.

(Was posted on other sites a month ago but forgot to post it here)

Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic: We're thrilled to announce the stable release of blendOS v4! You can now define your system through a single YAML file ('/system.yaml') with full support for packages from the Arch Linux repos and AUR, while continuing to be able to use Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/.../Android containers to run software not available on Arch Linux.

Custom desktop environments, kernels and other system packages are all supported with v4, through simple modifications to /system.yaml!

Download: https://blendos.co/download/

Release notes: https://blendos.co/blog/2024/06/05/blendos-v4-released-arch-linux-made-immutable-declarative-and-atomic/

The first v4 testing ISO is now out!

Quoting Rudra on Discord:

Aside from it being declarative and atomic, it now has a dedicated first-setup app that allows you to create users following the installation of the system, unlike previous iterations where it was a part of the system installer. It ships with GNOME 45 out-of-the-box, but just like with the alpha, you can change the desktop environment in the /system.yaml file and update your system from the 'System' app. The default GNOME dash is a lot less cluttered now (new default-gnome track). You can also include any custom packages or even build your own system with your own packages, giving you a nearly vanilla Arch Linux installation but immutable and atomic!

We've now implemented three-way /etc merges (similar to ostree), therefore making /etc mutable and allowing you to edit package configuration. Similarly, /usr/local too is now mutable so that you can install any themes or custom-built applications system-wide.

This is still a beta release, so not everything is finished. There are no system or user tools anymore, and the default DE is GNOME (this can be changed post-install).

You now have to use system.yaml, so follow my post-install guides here: https://asterisk.lol/blog/blend_v4/#post-install (soon to be on the new docs)

If you'd like to download it, you can get the ISO from the following mirrors:

Google Drive

Sahilister's Mirror

Qiwi

You can also get torrents for it from our FossTorrents page: https://fosstorrents.com/distributions/blendos/#downloads

Also, another reminder is that this is still a testing release. Things are unfinished!