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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has some good info.

https://news.itsfoss.com/vanilla-os-beta/

The main change with 2.0 is the Debian Sid base, as opposed to Ubuntu.

[–] Certainity45@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian Sid? Why not Bookworm?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The devs laid out their reasoning here:

https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2023-03-07/vanilla-os-20-orchid---initial-work

Essentially, they want a non-opinionated rolling release and to stick with apt as a base package manager, which means that Sid is the obvious solution.

[–] Certainity45@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation. I just didn't get the apt-part, since Bookworm uses apt too.