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Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers


developers The openSUSE project recently announced the second release candidate (RC2) of its Aeon Desktop, formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME. Aside from the new coat of naming paint, Aeon breaks ground in a few other ways by dabbling with technologies not found in other openSUSE releases.

Aeon uses a utility called transactional-update(with openSUSE's Zypper package manager under the hood) and Btrfs subvolumes to create and update system snapshots. Firefox and GNOME's text editor, calculator, and terminal application are all installed as Flatpaks as a second step after the desktop user logs in the first time. Aeon is touted as a distribution for users who do not want to hassle with system administration, but its sparse selection of software ensures that some up-front work is required to reach the payoff.

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