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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- An immutable distribution increases the security of the OS.
- Linux offers several different immutable distributions.
- Most of these are general-purpose, so anyone can use them.
What is an “immutable” Linux distribution?
Put simply, an immutable distro is one in which certain directories are read-only and cannot be changed. For example, the /usr directory contains many of your applications’…








