blendOS

Distro-switching & OCI system images in blendOS v5 + a collaboration with Framework

Rudra Saraswat — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is a cross-post (republished verbatim) from my personal blog that was originally titled 'devlog: distro-switching & OCI system images in blendOS, collaboration with Framework, and a personal update', bearing the original description:

An account of how I implemented the ability to switch between distributions on blendOS and news of a collaboration with Framework, plus a personal update at the end.

As such, certain sections of this blog post may not be directly relevant to the project.

Blend-settings hotfix

Asterisk — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Fix for blend-settings.

Akshara fix no longer required

Asterisk — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Some new fixes to make akshara more stable.

Emergency akshara fix for AUR updates

Asterisk — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Emergency ALPM fix

Meet our issue board

Asterisk — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Issues are finally being categorized.

Our Gitlab migration is now underway

Asterisk — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Here's what's changed.

Our Minecraft server is now live (again)!

Asterisk — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I'm hosting it this time.

Akshara Updates!

Asterisk — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Some new fixes to make akshara more stable.

New Gitlab security measures

Asterisk — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

New security measures have been added to prevent bot spam.

The guides system is now online!

Asterisk — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The guides system is now available!

Making this website

Asterisk — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The history behind the blendOS website

blendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic

Rudra Saraswat — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Download it here: blendos.co/download/

We're thrilled to unveil blendOS v4, a groundbreaking release that redefines blendOS as a highly-flexible, immutable and atomic variant of Arch Linux. blendOS retains the flexibility of traditional Linux distributions (unlike other immutable Linux distributions) thanks to its declarative nature. Of course, we continue to support packages from Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and other distributions, alongside Android application support. You can also use any desktop environment available in the Arch Linux repositories or AUR, or any of the offered pre-configured desktop environments (including KDE Plasma, MATE, XFCE and Budgie) through the tracks features implemented on blendOS v4 (more on that later).

blendOS v4 Alpha

Rudra Saraswat — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

blendOS v4 Alpha

We're glad to announce the first alpha release of blendOS v4!

It's the first release of blendOS that is fully declarative, allowing you to have any packages, kernels or drivers on a base Arch system of your liking, while shipping pre-configured GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE and Budgie images if you'd like not to deal with the hassle of setting everything up yourself.

blendOS v3 "Bhatura" is now available

Rudra Saraswat — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

blendOS v3 "Bhatura" is now available

blendOS v3 “Bhatura” has now been released, with a host of new features, including the ability to switch between 7 desktop environments with system track, seamless atomic background updates, support for 10 container distributions and Nix, reproducible systems (containers and dotfiles), new developer-friendly CLI utilities for system and user operations and a lot more.

blendOS v2 "Avial" is now available

Rudra Saraswat — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

blendOS v2 "Avial" is now available

We’re excited to announce the new stable release of blendOS v2 codenamed “Avial”, with a range of exciting new features!

Check out our video for a quick overview of all the new features: https://youtu.be/_OpKeqTtY1s.

Download: https://github.com/blend-os/blendOS/releases/tag/23.04

Discord: https://discord.gg/m9JPmZB8Kd