Atomic vs. immutable Linux: Why choose one when these nine distros offer both?

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I found an immutable Linux distro that never breaks and is effortless to use ...

I've done some reading about immutable Linux distros and, well, I guess I don't get what all the fuss is about. The idea seems to be to 'harden' a system by making it hard to modify, but. . . Isn't ...

The minimalist Linux distribution updates its base to kernel 6.18.2 and GCC 15.2.0. Tiny Core remains systemd-free.

A team of renowned Linux developers has set itself the goal of making Linux more secure and cryptographically verifying the integrity of Linux systems. The project builds on “immutable Linux,” among ...

Flatcar was one of the projects that caught my eye at KubeCon this year. What I found interesting about it is that it is a Linux distribution tailored to run containers. This means that the developers ...