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Vanilla OS 2 (v1.4.0) is officially here!
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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In general it is -as mentioned by @h3ron@lemmy.zip- an immutable, Debian based distribution with GNOME. It uses a quiet interesting system called ABRoot for doing updates. I use it on one of my spare machines now since they did the switch from Ubuntu base to Debian and honestly i like it.
Does it use an LTS kernel like Debian or is it more like Ubuntu/Fedora?
It's Debian Sid based so I assume you find the Kernel used therein in VanillaOS
Ah thanks. Now I remember why I never used VanillaOS previously. I’ve been keeping my eye on bluefin-LTS though. Looks like a really interesting project. CentOS Stream based immutable distribution.