A “Git-like” Linux Operating System

Luis Javier Arizmendi Alonso
25 min readAug 25, 2022

Probably you are getting their benefits but you don’t even know that you were using them*, I’m talking about libostree Operating Systems.

This is the history of how the needs of a group of developers made it possible, using standard Linux features and concepts borrowed from technologies such as Git, to manage a Linux OS lifecycle as if it were a source code repository.

*If you are using OpenShift, Fedora IoT or RHEL for Edge, you are using a libostree Linux Operating System, just as an example.

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Luis Javier Arizmendi Alonso

I was born some time ago, I’m living daily and, probably, I will eventually die