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A Bedrock Linux 0.7.x point update released less than two months ago. The slow of progress to 0.8.0 is in part because, after 0.7.0's release, the user support load has been very h…

To be clear, Bedrock Linux does not hang during sleep. Rather, it cannot enter sleep consistently; if it fails to, it simply continues on as it was operating before the request to …

I've looked into this further since the link you've provided. I have medium/long term ideas to work around this, but nothing in the short term: - Ultimately this seems to trace bac…

I can speak authoritatively for Bedrock Linux, although blendOS is new to me. From what I can tell reading about blendOS, key differences seem to be: - blendOS appears to use a com…

Ah, I now see what you mean. With the exceptions of /var/lib/dbus/machine-id and /var/run, which need to be shared for certain bits of software to communicate properly, /var is cur…

Without something to constrain where it is used, chroot can be theoretically abused as part of an attack. Thus, by default chroot requires root permissions. Part of what schroot do…

I really do wish I could help, but I don't know how to reconcile what I'm reading as a mutually exclusive desire. If I'm interpreting you correctly, it sounds like you recognize wh…

Bedrock Linux is a system to integrate things from different distros. The desire to use it while avoiding integration with a "base system" seems mutually exclusive to me. I think o…

Apologies, I misinterpreted your concern to be a matter of losing the entirety of Nix's atomic features entirely rather than concern over even limited escapes from its Nix's scope.…

I'm likely equipped to answer your question if you elaborate a bit on what you mean by runtime state. Could you provide concrete examples of things you are curious about? The gener…

Bedrock does support exactly this workflow. I do something along these lines, with the nuanced difference that I have a period of overlap where I'm using both the old and new strat…

It depends on exactly what you mean. While you may not have intended it to be, this question is more philosophical than technical. Extended conversations I've had on this topic eve…

> Thanks for coming on here. You're welcome :) > What do you think about Nix and Guix way of managing packages I have not used either in adequate depth to make strong statements ab…

You are very welcome

> What are the main downsides to using Bedrock? I address them in this FAQ entry [0]. In my experience providing support for Bedrock Linux users for over a decade, the most notable…

My understanding of Bedrock Linux's security concerns are addressed in this FAQ entry [0]. In the decade or so I've been working on Bedrock, I have yet to come across any situation…

> You mentioned both Arch and AUR in the target user part, which makes me wonder if you were mainly a Arch user before, Before Bedrock Linux I was mainly a Debian user. I did brief…

> Hi and thanks for reaching out to the community here. You're welcome :) > As a poweruser. What are the benefits of this best of all worlds approach, and when might I need them? I…

It is not clear to me why you feel this way. Everyone I've spoken with who has put effort toward making Bedrock play nicely NixOS has done so with the aim of retaining that list of…

> For a more extreme case, there is a schroot (or a docker container) with /home, audio and X mapped in. Works surprisingly well for desktop apps, like those embedded IDEs which re…

Either stubbornness or perseverance, depending on how charitable one is feeling.

I'm the Bedrock Linux founder and lead developer. I'm happy to answer any questions.

> It's pretty cool that this can host other distros, but is that the only advantage over NixOS? The ability to transparently get features from other distros is Bedrock Linux's defi…

Bedrock Linux does indeed support workflows with multiple copies of Debian, and this does in practice often resolve the quoted concern of mixing parts from different Debian release…