Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops - Fedora Magazine
Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops - Fedora Magazine
Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.
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I think that atomic is a way better name than immutable imo
I feel that I am 50:50 on it, immutable at least conveyed more information about what it is while Atomic feels a lot more "buzz-word-y" and does not convey as well what it means. Regardless, I'd say the bigger issue is keeping the old Silverblue & Kinoite names, they really should change them even if it means having a ~2 year period of having "Formerly Silverblue / Kinoite".
Issue is that Immutable also conveyed a different type of information. When I first heard of it, I genuinely thought it was something like DeepFreeze for Windows
Are you familiar with the concept of “atomicity” in relation to database systems? It’s actually a very appropriate term, and the article touches on its use over “immutable”.