{"id":268439,"date":"2026-06-09T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/rakuos-fixes-the-one-thing-that-annoys-me-most-about-immutable-linux-distros\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:10","slug":"rakuos-fixes-the-one-thing-that-annoys-me-most-about-immutable-linux-distros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/rakuos-fixes-the-one-thing-that-annoys-me-most-about-immutable-linux-distros\/","title":{"rendered":"RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/rakuos-fixes-my-biggest-problem-with-immutable-linux-distros\/\">RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/rakuos-fixes-my-biggest-problem-with-immutable-linux-distros\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/rakuos-fixes-my-biggest-problem-with-immutable-linux-distros\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 11:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>RakuOS is a hybrid immutable\/standard Linux distro<\/li>\n<li>With RakuOS you get the best of both worlds with security and usability.<\/li>\n<li>RakuOS can be downloaded and installed for free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Immutable Linux is about as secure as an OS can get. By mounting certain directories as read-only, malicious code or bad actors cannot affect the data within. I could seriously place my full faith in immutable Linux and not worry about a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Until I wanted to install an application using the distribution&#8217;s built-in package manager.<\/p>\n<p>With immutable Linux distributions, software is typically installed via containers, such as Flatpak or Snap. Installation of apps is done this way because of the read-only nature of certain directories. Because of that, standard package managers cannot install the necessary files, so using the likes of apt, dnf, or pacman is a no-go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: What is immutable Linux? Here&#8217;s why you&#8217;d run an immutable Linux distro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does that mean you&#8217;re limited to the apps you have available on an immutable distribution? Somewhat. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the average user won&#8217;t feel as if they&#8217;re missing out on anything because Flathub and Snapcraft have tons of apps.<\/p>\n<p>But when I&#8217;m using an immutable distribution, and I want to install something like Ollama, I&#8217;m out of luck if I want to ensure I&#8217;m using the latest version of the app (I currently run Ollama 0.30.7 on my Pop!_OS desktop). I&#8217;ve attempted to install Ollama via Flatpak, and although the command completes, the app is nowhere to be found. I&#8217;ve tried several times, but the end result is a failure. However, running the command sudo dnf install ollama works just fine; it shouldn&#8217;t, but it does.<\/p>\n<p>Why should the DNF command fail? Because RakuOS is immutable, installing via DNF shouldn&#8217;t be possible. That&#8217;s where RakuOS says, nay, nay. How does RakuOS pull this off? According to the official site, &#8220;RakuOS uses a persistent overlay system mounted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/rakuos-fixes-my-biggest-problem-with-immutable-linux-distros\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/rakuos-fixes-my-biggest-problem-with-immutable-linux-distros\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/dd95f3acf4a56aeab8dfc6ebb816337928bf9f42\/2026\/06\/09\/8c06a64e-b472-41e0-acc3-1638b29ff094\/rakuoshero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,57],"class_list":["post-268439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268442,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439\/revisions\/268442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}