The maintainers of the official editions of the Fedora Linux distribution, utilizing atomic system updates, have proposed the adoption of a unified name, Fedora Atomic Desktop, for builds whose components are not divided into separate packages and are updated atomically. The name for atomic editions is suggested to be "Fedora Atomic"; for example, if an atomic build with Xfce appears, it will be distributed as Fedora Xfce Atomic.
Currently, the atomic editions of Fedora are represented on the website as immutable, which confuses users. Furthermore, such builds are distributed under arbitrary names that are not tied to architectural features, creating difficulties for users when choosing a particular Fedora edition. For instance, an atomic build with the GNOME desktop environment is distributed under the name Fedora Silverblue, with KDE — Fedora Kinoite, with Sway — Fedora Sericea, and with Budgie — Fedora Onyx.
If the proposal is approved, these builds may start to be distributed under the names Fedora GNOME Atomic, Fedora KDE Atomic, Fedora Sway Atomic, and Fedora Budgie Atomic. Additionally, the renaming of existing builds is left to the discretion of the development teams, and if desired, projects will be able to retain their previous names. The atomic editions of Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT, which are not intended for workstations, will also continue to be delivered under their previous names.
Atomic builds are provided as a monolithic image, not split into separate packages, and are 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, a system of self-contained flatpak packages is used, which allows applications to be separated from the main system and run in a separate container.
Source: opennet.ru
