Developers want to offer Fedora Onyx with Budgie environment as an immutable OS

The developers behind Fedora will offer Fedora Onyx with the Budgie desktop environment as an immutable version starting with the next version of the distro. This means that the root directory cannot simply be modified.

The developers of the operating system have that made a proposal at the Fedora Project. In that proposal, the developers argue for adding Fedora Onyx as an immutable version to the possible versions of the distribution. In an immutable OS, the root directory is read-only. This means that changes to the operating system are rolled back after a restart, which is usually a lot safer and easier to manage. Such systems also tend to be more consistent and stable.

There are already several immutable variants of Fedora, including the standard Silverblue and KDE variant Kinoite, but according to the developers, Onyx’s main asset is that it runs on the Budgie desktop environment. That has been since the most recent release of Fedora 38 available as official Fedora Spin.

The developers hope that Fedora Onyx will be available as an immutable option starting with Fedora 39, the upcoming version. The distro would need an adjustment for this and would have to use rpm-ostree as an image and package system. The developers of the Fedora Project must agree to the addition.