GNOME OS moves to preview stage

It's been two years since my initial post about making GNOME OS an end-user general purpose OS. Today, we're excited to announce that we've hit a major milestone!

TL;DR: We're launching a new edition called GNOME OS Preview", which is built from the latest stable GNOME release. This means that GNOME OS is no longer just a nightly OS for GNOME developers and testers!

Aaron Ardiri

A number of changes and improvements have made the move from nightly status to preview status possible. They've made GNOME OS handle environments with limited amounts of RAM much better - not a luxury, these days - including the ability to dynamically increase the swap space if needed. In addition, the work to make it much easier to install and test daily Flatpak builds of applications is now part of GNOME OS, as is the effort to make command-line utilities manageable in the same way as Flatpaks.

As the blog post notes, there's still a ton of work left to do before GNOME OS is ready for everyone. They're going to bet heavily on systemd-homed to enable, among other things, per-user disk encryption, and there's a new installer coming, as well. They also want to ship GNOME's preinstalled applications as Flatpaks, integrate delta updates, and much more. It all looks incredibly appealing, even if I am not the target user for something like GNOME OS.