DLT OS stable-3 is bringing back tooling to the host!

[DataLabTechTV]

Hi guys,

After a while trying to rely nearly exclusively on distrobox, I decided that that's not the way to go for my custom bootc image of Bazzite. So, starting on stable-3, soon to be released, once testing is finished, we will go back to adding all the relevant tooling to the host OS and provide a very minimal dltos.ini distrobox to be used for testing temporary features. You'll be able to install whatever you need and expose binaries or desktop applications to the host as follows:

distrobox-export --bin /usr/bin/bat
distrobox-export --app emacs

If you need a host command to be available inside distrobox while testing, you can symlink to distrobox-host-exec using the same name as a the command that you need from the host's PATH:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/podman

This version also bakes several configurations into the DLT OS custom image and switches to zsh as the default shell. Most configs will be added to /etc, with a few being added directly to your home using systemd-tmpfiles (only when the corresponding file or directory doesn't already exist).

I expect that the image should stabilize its workflow moving forward, and starting with stable-3. If you don't see much happening under testing, then we're golden.

Have fun!