[Really Off Topic] A couple of decades ago, one of my friends (before he became super rich) who was also a fellow early Linux adopter, owned a run-of-the-mill router factory. For some reason he had this ingenious idea of combining some Linux code with the open-sourced dhcp server (at that time not even in alpha stage) and burning the resultant (drastically reduced and rewritten) code into a ROM which was then embedded into his routers. Overnight, his company (Linksys) became a great success and stood head and shoulders above everyone else. He eventually sold his company to Cisco for $500M but the world also greatly benefited from his ingenuity by being able to enjoy dhcp servers at a very affordable price.For most of the Debian experts on this forum, Bookworm, because of its maturity, probably would make a better candidate for use as the starting point of an immutable OS.
[Probably not too off-topic] During the Pandemic, many schools used Fed COVID funds to purchase Chromebooks for their students to do on-line classes at home. The main reason was that, unlike Windows, Chromebooks are basically immutable making them much easier to administer. I hired a couple of high school kids to try our immutable Sid (at that time corresponding to the future Bullseye), and they actually liked Debian better than Chromebooks. Most of Chromebook functions (at least those that are typically used by the students) can be duplicated with the Google Chrome browser, which was made part of the Debian live iso, but a full blown Debian OS, even in the form of an immutable live usb stick, is much much more powerful and more fun to use than a Chromebook. Later on, it was discovered that those Chromebooks were not upgradable (I have no idea what that means), thus creating a huge e-waste problem. Don't know whether that problem was resolved.
Statistics: Posted by pwzhangzz — 2024-10-04 08:22