Manjaro Team Tests Immutable Version of its Arch-Based Distribution
If you're a fan of immutable operating systems, you'll be thrilled to know that the Manjaro team is working on an immutable spin that is now available for testing.
If you do a quick search, you'll find there are a handful of immutable Linux distributions based on Arch (such as Arkane Linux). As immutability seems to make more and more sense with each passing day, it was only a matter of time before another Arch-based distribution decided to create a similar offering.
That offering is coming from the Manjaro team, and they're working with the Arkdep toolkit (which was created by the Arkane Linux team) to create an immutable, atomic OS on top of the Btrfs filesystem.
According to this forum post, the reason the Manjaro team decided to go with Arkdep is ease of use and the support for personalized configurations. The post also links to the arkdep-build docs, where you can learn how to build your own images. The Manjaro team also has offered their Arkdep profiles as a template.
The plan is for this new immutable version to become an official spin of Manjaro but, as of now, there's no time frame for when this will happen, as there is a lot to do and currently it is only in the testing/information gathering stage.
Anyone interested in trying the immutable take on Manjaro will need to have a machine that meets the minimum requirements of 32GB of internal storage (64GB recommended) and UEFI boot.
You can download the ISO from the official download site.
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