-21
The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming
(hackaday.com)
"Distroless"
looks inside
Distro
Remember Serverless? Servers all the way down.
INTERMEDIARY BUILD LAYERS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
DAYS OF REBASING yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for building on anything above fedora:atomic
Wanted to base your image on someone elses anyway to save some work? We had a tool for that, it was called "FORKING"
"Distroless is built on GNOME OS" "error: /Tree contains both /etc and /usr/etc" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged.
LOOK at what Devs have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the servers and window managers we built for them (These are REAL distros, done by REAL devs)
https://github.com/ublue-os/akmods/commit/70af39999c681566bd1c66f23834daa37b996aaa
https://github.com/ublue-os/main/pull/771
"Hello I would like 1.8 pixels please"
They have played us for absolute fools.
Wouldn't "distroless" just mean LFS?
I mean, if they're packaging an OS for distribution, what makes that distroless?
built on GNOME OS
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
So... How do you distribute it? Did someone forget what distro was short for?
What the heck is this please? The GitHub link contains nothing about "distroless".
Followed the link. Two blurbs that are plenty to turn me off it:
Homebrew on-tap by default, same tools as your Mac
No thanks. I don't need anything from Mac. I actually hate using Mac including the headaches that homebrew brings. I only use it for work and only because I hate it less than windows and Linux isn't a choice.
For professionals and AI/ML engineers
So it's catering to AI. No thanks.
This community is funny.
From what I can tell this is is basically the spiritual evolution of Bazzite, by the same team and built with a similar approach. Yet look at how differently they are received.
Brand identity memes are truly impactful these days. Names and presentation seem to drive majority sentiment.
ok so basically suggesting it be like freebsd. which honestly is kinda cool but all the same not exactly a great solution for folks that want an easy one and done. I suppose their could be an option at setup for certain defaults that would basically be a list of distros and would automatically do the distros default setup.
Which one? Open, Net, Free? Ports and AUR etc are awesome. But not new or great for everyone.
by freebsd I meant FreeBSD.
Ah my bad. Though still, at valid point, Free BSD is one of many BSD distributions. Therefore not "distro less". I've done the distro less thing once and only once just for the experience. I am 100% with you that in general I think any sane person would want a decent distribution.
Sorry. What I meant is it sounds like its suggesting an install interface where you basically choose what you want like you see with freebsd (or did at least back when I was using it which admitadely was some time ago but yes the other bsds). Also I thought the various bsds had different kernels so where not exactly distros of each other.
I don't know. Maybe you're thinking of something different than I am, because didn't most Linux distributions have that as well? Some definitely more than others. Especially arch. Even more user-friendly distributions of arch still allow some insane customization. I installed catchy the other day and was blown away to see them offer system d-boot among others right there in the installer. Even garuda and others just assume system d by default.
Maybe. I certainly have not used them all. Honestly it would sorta mean using one specific package manager and such so im not sure if what they are describing the way I read it is really feasable. I use a really easy out of box distro now so I only make a few decisions at install and mostly just hit enter and accept defaults for them.
You can install nix on most distro and mix and match packages. Things like docker flatpak etc can get you close to being technically distro less at the cost of some storage space for the distro bases.
True distrolessness is a thing almost no one would want. Build once install everywhere OTOH.
Come back in another decade when things like Flatpak are actually usable without giving up a bunch of features or having to change settings or do workarounds to get everything working.
I think is very dependent on the apps you install because i haven't need to do really any workarounds and i install all my apps through Flatpak. The only messing around with permissions i do is disabling everything that i dont need (like printer or smartcard access). I also have over a hundred apps installed.
It’s still not possible to make Discord work correctly in Flatpak
What features? Discord was working perfect for me on a custom client (Vesktop) but is broken now because they hate me using a VPN.
Ok. I guess I never noticed because I actively don't like any of those features and I definitely don't want Discord to have unrestricted filesystem access. The file picker in Vesktop works for me without giving full access.
Wouldn't this be too barebones?
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
-21 points (16.1% liked)
Linux
11085 readers
1024 users here now
A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)
Also, check out:
Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS