An innovative, immutable filesystem
Conclusions and Outlook
Positives first: rlxos is fun, installs in no time, and also runs fast. The Gnome shell is inviting to work with because it does not follow the Gnome developers' somewhat unrealistic design philosophy. If you have no ideological problems with Flatpak and AppImage, you can work well with rlxos and don't need to be afraid of breaking your system.
The rlxos website used to have its own own AppImage app store, called Bazaar [8], but it only contained four apps, and it appears the store is now missing from the site. You can, however, find plenty of AppImages at AppImageHub [9] and the GitHub store [10]. The integration of Image still needs some fine-tuning. The rlxos developers need to simplify the GRUB update after installing a new image to a single short command or provide integration at the push of a button.
The welcome tour offers a preview of what is to come (Figure 8), including a virtual assistant called rlxbot, the src programming language derived from JavaScript, and a system monitor dubbed health, which keeps an eye on the system's operating status. Judging by the very young age of the distribution, it is in surprisingly good shape, considering that the developers are building rlxos from scratch. If development continues at this brisk pace, we'll definitely be relaxing with rlxos again in a year or two.
Infos
- rlxos: https://rlxos.dev
- Documentation: https://docs.rlxos.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/rlxos
- rlxos blog: https://blog.rlxos.dev
- PKGUPD: https://blog.rlxos.dev/01-introduction-to-pkgupd-ckr1s6kxp0ffhqus1b4fyeelr
- Installation variant: https://blog.rlxos.dev/installing-rlxos-from-any-other-already-installed-linux-distribution-ckqi52gk903m77ts12ykg86ve
- Repositories: https://docs.rlxos.dev/package-management/appctl
- Bazaar: https://rlxos.dev/apps
- AppImageHub: https://www.appimagehub.com/
- GitHub store: https://appimage.github.io/apps/
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