Oreon Linux - A great choice for Linux on Framework

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Hi, I’d like to talk a little bit about a Linux distribution that I lead. It’s called Oreon.
The goal is to provide a first-class Enterprise Linux experience by providing packages not found in Rocky, RHEL, Centos, Alma, etc. The reason I want to make a post about this is because I wanted to help Framework Linux support by providing kernel version upgrades every few months. Oreon’s next feature update will release in a few days upgrading Kernel 5.14 to 6.10. I think this it would be a good idea for Framework to support my project. I will do my best with my team to provide as much help as possible if you can adopt Oreon on your laptops. It would also be cool if in the future laptops could ship with Oreon out of the box because the user experience is pretty much flawless when compared to other distros. Just to add, Oreon has 10 years of support per-release. (Including Kernel upgrades)

Let me know what you all think, thanks.
Website: https://oreonproject.org/

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Perhaps you could share with us a bit more about where Oreon fits in across other distros, and how the Framework laptops are a good fit for it?

I see that the distro is based on Almalinux and is under the RHEL umbrella of sorts.

I really appreciate hearing that the distro just works great out of the box! That is a big sticking point for a lot of distros.

I love the LTS support as well! I feel like this is crucial in the distro world. Especially since flatpak, snap, and other packing systems make it possible to run all of the cutting edge without being on a cutting edge distro.

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Hi, the reason I think Oreon is more suitable for Framework Laptops is because my team and I are commited to pushing kernel upgrades every few months (eg. 6.10 → 6.11) instead of one single kernel that will eventually stop supporting newer hardware.

Thanks and let me know your opinions, or if you have any more questions. :slight_smile:

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But this is nothing special. Many non-rolling distros provide frequent kernel updates (fedora for example). And even other packages.

The kernel in my opinion is only one part. You also would need mesa, linix-formware packages to be updated frequently, for the AMD laptops atleast.

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Sorry, I wasn’t specific enough.
Let me talk a little bit about my goals.
Oreon 10 (the next release) is aimed to provide over 1000+ more packages than RHEL. (including the ones you mentioned.)
How are we doing this?
Oreon will start shipping it’s own independent package manager called eon aimed to be 2-3x faster than DNF/YUM. We are also working on our own automated buildsystem for eon and a builder called eternity. These can all be found (in a functional, but not-packaged state) at https://git.oreonproject.org . Oreon 10 is going to ship with KDE Plasma too making the user experience better overall. OEM mode will also be introduced so OEMs can pre-install software and set configs. There is a lot more to it.

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