BlendOS 3 officially released, immutable Linux seamlessly runs Android applications

blendOS developer and Ubuntu Unity maintainer Rudra Saraswat announced today that blendOS 3, the immutable Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, has been officially released with some unique features.

blendOS 3 adds support for nine other distributions via Distrobox/Podman, including Arch Linux, AlmaLinux OS, Crystal Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Kali Linux, Neurodebian Bookworm, Rocky Linux and Ubuntu Linux, thereby enhancing the ability to run other GNU/Linux distributions within blendOS.

Another important new feature of blendOS 3 is support for 7 desktop environments, including KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE and Deepin, and the ability to quickly and easily switch between them via system tracking .

In addition, blendOS 3 also adds support for 10 container distributions and the Nix package manager, providing new developer-friendly command-line utilities for system and user operations, reproducible system (containers and dotfiles), and a new way to do system updates without using a package repository.

Rudra Saraswat explained: "Unlike traditional Linux distributions, blendOS uses ISO images for updates, and the system is rebuilt when updating. Thanks to zsync technology, the download size of updates is usually under 10 -100 MiB, which may be different than you think."

blendOS already supports seamless running of Android apps through WayDroid, but the new version makes it easier to install more apps by double-clicking an APK, DEB, RPM, or pkg.tar.zst binary to install it into a container. The developers note that for APK files, you first need to initialize Android app support from the blendOS Settings app.

If you want to give it a try, you can now download blendOS 3 (codenamed Bhatura) from the official website, which includes the latest KDE Plasma 5.27.6 LTS, GNOME 44.2, Xfce 4.18, LXQt 1.3.0, Cinnamon 5.8, MATE 1.26 and Deepin version.

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