Switching over to Debian Sid gives it more control in this area. Thirdly, Vanilla OS wants to be in charge of its own release cadence, rather than kowtow to Ubuntu’s six-monthly drops. Plus, some of Ubuntu’s deb-to-snap transitional packages (like Mozilla Firefox) get tangled up inside of their APX package manager. Vanilla OS devs aren’t that enamoured by them as they continue to have performance and integration quirks. Ubuntu makes a number of modifications to GNOME and unpicking those changes is, frankly too much darn effort, all considered. It wants to ship a desktop as close to source as possible, in this instance GNOME. Why?!įirstly, there’s clue in the distro’s name: vanilla. Cadence solves these issues by offering a highly scalable fault-oblivious code platform.

The devs behind the project today announced a major change: Vanilla OS will ditch Ubuntu and switch to Debian Sid.

I took a look at Vanilla OS earlier this year and came away mighty impressed by its immutability, its multi-spoked package manager, and its thoughtful implementation atop an Ubuntu base.

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