The Fedora project has announced the unification of naming for user builds of the Fedora Linux distribution, which utilizes an atomic update model and a monolithic system layout. These distribution variants are categorized into a separate family called Fedora Atomic Desktops, with builds named "Fedora desktop_name Atomic."
At the same time, the well-known and long-established atomic builds will retain their old names, as they have already become recognizable brands. As a result, Fedora Silverblue based on GNOME and Fedora Kinoite based on KDE will keep their previous names. The atomic updates of Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT, which are not intended for workstations, will also continue to be distributed under their old names.
Meanwhile, relatively new builds such as Fedora Sericea and Fedora Onyx will be distributed under the new names Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic. New names will also be assigned with the arrival of new editions, such as Fedora Xfce Atomic (the Fedora Vauxite project), Fedora Pantheon Atomic, Fedora COSMIC Atomic, and others. It is expected that this change will reduce the confusion caused by arbitrary names given to atomic editions that do not reflect the atomic nature of the build and the desktop used.
Fedora atomic builds are delivered as a monolithic image, not split into separate packages and updated as a whole through complete replacement of the system image. The base environment is built from official Fedora RPM packages using the rpm-ostree tool, and is mounted in read-only mode. For installing and updating additional applications, the flatpak self-contained package system is used, which separates applications from the main system and runs them in isolated containers.
Meanwhile, Ubuntu developers have changed their plans regarding the atomic-updated distribution Ubuntu Core Desktop, which won't be ready for the upcoming spring LTS release of Ubuntu 24.04. Ubuntu Core Desktop is built on the Ubuntu Core platform and includes only applications formatted with Snap packages. Developers have decided not to rush and to avoid releasing a raw product. The approximate release date for the first version of Ubuntu Core Desktop has not been specified, only noting that the release will occur after all existing issues have been resolved.
Source: opennet.ru
