Commits on Feb 17, 2024

1. Rebranding 'Immutable Distributions' (privacyguides#2402) …

   It seems like both distributions in the current 'immutable distributions' category are moving beyond the immutable branding.
   
   Fedora:
   > Thirdly, this nice branding term is also a more accurate way of talking about how rpm-ostree works. Fedora Atomic spins are not actually immutable. There are ways to get around the read-only aspects of the implementation even though it is much harder. The nature of the OS, where updates are only implemented when they successfully build and you can rollback or rebase between core host systems, is better described by atomicity than immutability. Atomic is also how many of the contributors who work on rpm-ostree prefer to talk about it! Rebranding provides an opportunity to change the language surrounding this technology.
   
   Nix:
   > NixOS also provides atomic updates;
   (Directly from Privacy Guides)
   
   It's a minor change, but I feel it'd be helpful for the community to be utilizing consistent terminology for different technologies being utilized.
   
   Co-authored-by: Jonah Aragon <jonah@privacyguides.org>
   Signed-off-by: Daniel Gray <dngray@privacyguides.org>

   

   2 people authored and dngray committed Feb 17, 2024
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