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by fkistner 2323 days ago
Can someone recommend an immutable Linux distro, which offers auto-updates out-of-the-box and supports arm64 on RPi?

Have been searching for something like this for a while for a personal project, but unfortunately neither Flatcar nor Fedora CoreOS seem to support arm64, RancherOS does not to seem to offer fully automatic updates.
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choward 2323 days ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "immutable" but you might find NixOS (https://nixos.org/) interesting. However, it might not be the best experience at the moment for the Raspberry Pi 4 (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/63720).
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infinisil 2323 days ago
As choward already mentioned, I think NixOS is a very good choice: aarch64 is decently well supported with a bunch of people running NixOS on their Raspbys, and cross compilation support is really good too if needed. See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Raspberry_Pi for more info, or hop into #nixos and/or #nixos-aarch64 on Freenode for help
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Conan_Kudo 2323 days ago
The ARM version of Fedora CoreOS is just known as the Fedora IoT Edition: https://iot.fedoraproject.org/

It's slimmer and more tuned for AArch64 and SBC type systems.

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