Base elemetary OS on Fedora/Fedora Silverblue (for an immutable version) or their Ubuntu equivalent

[azizkoumenji]

Why not base elementary OS on more up to date distros instead of Ubuntu LTS. 2 years is too long of a wait to get the latest package versions. It could be Fedora/Fedora Silverblue or their Ubuntu equivalent that releases releases every 6 months.

[ryonakano]

Sorry, there is no plan to rebase on Fedora families or intermediate releases of Ubuntu.

• It requires huge effort to rebase on Fedora families because it completely different from Ubuntu, i.e. OS build systems, package name, etc.
• We can't release our OS every 6 months because we're small team and most members are volunteers
  • Rebasing on intermediate releases of Ubuntu means we would also release every 6 months
  • However, we always take around 6 to even 9 months to release our OS after LTS version of Ubuntu is released
    • See the "Released" column in https://github.com/elementary/os/wiki/Release-Upgrades

However, if you have specific packages that you want newer versions, we'll look into whether we can backport them or not. If so feel free to create a feature request to the os-patches repository.

For example, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comes with flatpak 1.16.6, but we'll ship the version available on Ubuntu 26.10 (1.17.0 at the moment) for OS 9.