Vanilla OS is designed to be a reliable and productive operating system for your daily work. This distro is based on Debian.
The distro features ABRoot, a utility which provides full immutability and atomicity to a Linux system, by transacting between two root filesystems. Updates are performed using OCI images, to ensure that the system is always in a consistent state.
It’s billed as extremely versatile thanks to its utilization of OCI images. OCI images allow you to configure your system to your specific needs, while still having a stable environment.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | APT |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | vanillaos.org |
| Developer: | fabricators.ltd and volunteers |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions and Open Source Operating Systems. |
What's a Linux distribution ("distro")? |
| A distro provides the user with a desktop environment, preloaded applications, and ways to update and maintain the system. Each distro makes different choices, deciding which open source projects to install and provides custom written programs. They can have different philosophies. Some distros are intended for desktop computers, some for servers without a graphical interface, and others for special uses. Because Linux is an open source operating system, combinations of software vary between Linux distros. |
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Hello everyone,
Running through your excellent big list of Linux distros, I notice Vanilla OS is listed as a Ubuntu distribution. While it started out using Ubuntu as a base, it changed to a solely Debian base after the first year, I believe. Hope this helps. and thank you for an excellent resource.
Thanks Tony, you’re quite right. Vanilla OS originally used Ubuntu, but Vanilla OS 2 switched to what the developers describe as a hybrid Debian base. I’ve corrected its classification in the Big List, and this article.
Thanks for spotting that.