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particleos

⸭ An image-based, secure OS, built on top of various Linux distributions

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

⸭ An image-based, secure OS, built on top of various Linux distributions

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-12-18 20:46:37 UTC to 2026-08-31 14:20:27 UTC.

0123452023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

What Hacker News says

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lproven·Sep 11, 2025
> Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html. Hang on. I have to say [[citation needed]] on this. I write about systemd regularly, and read Lennart's blog and Mastodon feed. As evidence, I did an in-depth on systemd 258 just a month or so ago: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/systemd_258_first_rc_... I do not personally use GNOME or GNOME Boxes and I've never managed to get GNOME OS to so much as boot successfully in a hypervisor or on bare metal, and I've tried many times. But I don't think it adopts all these fancy features yet. ParticleOS does: https://github.com/systemd/particleos But that's a separate distro. It's not GNOME OS. It's the testbed for the "fitting everything together" concepts. Adrian Vovk's C
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arbonOS did much of this: https://carbon.sh/ ... but it's dormant now. He wants to turn GNOME OS into something like that, as he has said: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-... And I have written about: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros... I am not aware it has happened yet, though.
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