Peter Robinson () from the Red Hat Release Engineering Team accepting the IoT distribution as an official release of Fedora 33. Thus, starting with Fedora 33 will ship alongside Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server. The proposal has not yet been officially approved, but its publication was previously approved by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution, so its acceptance can be considered a formality.
Recall that the Fedora IoT edition is designed for use on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and is based on the same technologies that are used in , ΠΈ . The distribution kit offers a system environment cut to a minimum, which is updated atomically by replacing the image of the entire system, without breaking it into separate packages. To control the integrity, the entire system image is digitally signed. To separate applications from the main system use isolated containers (podman is used for management). Also possible
system environment for specific applications and specific devices.
Technology is used to form the system environment , in which the system image is atomically updated from a Git-like repository, which allows you to apply version control methods to the components of the distribution (for example, you can quickly roll back the system to a previous state). RPM packages are translated into the OSTree repository using a special layer . Ready builds for x86_64 and Aarch64 architectures (they also promise to add support for ARMv7 in the near future). support for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ boards,
96boards Rock960 Consumer Edition, Pine64 A64-LTS, Pine64 Rockpro64 and Rock64 and Up Squared, as well as x86_64 and aarch64 virtual machines.
Source: opennet.ru