"The upstart distro is based on Universal Blue images built from the core technologies of Fedora Atomic. That means that the components are from Fedora, but deployed in an immutable form, with most of the filesystem read-only, and updates to the OS itself managed by OSTree. Universal Blue is the basis of a few other distros, including the gaming-focused Bazzite and the developer-oriented Bluefin."
"It tells us that Aurora pre-installs more media codecs, has drivers for additional hardware, and replaces multiple stock KDE apps - for instance, it uses the Bazaar app store (as well as KDE's own Discover), the Ptyxis terminal emulator, and the Starship shell prompt. As well as the two app stores, there's also Warehouse for Flatpak management, and if that's not enough, it also includes the Linux version of the macOS Homebrew package manager."
"Immutable distros prevent experienced users from installing OS packages in the normal way, so Aurora provides Distrobox, which we looked at a while ago, to provide a choice of familiar Linux environments running in containers, with the DistroShelf GUI wrapper to make it easier. At command-line level, there's also a special ujust command for enabling extra features and changing system settings."
Aurora is built from Universal Blue images using Fedora Atomic core technologies, deploying Fedora components in an immutable form with most of the filesystem read-only and OSTree-managed updates. The Universal Blue base also supports distros like Bazzite and Bluefin. Aurora customizes the KDE Plasma base by pre-installing additional media codecs and hardware drivers and replacing several stock KDE apps with Bazaar, Discover, Ptyxis, and the Starship prompt. The distro includes Warehouse for Flatpak management and the Linux Homebrew package manager. Aurora provides Distrobox with a DistroShelf GUI and a ujust command for enabling extra features and changing system settings.
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