GNOME OS releases new images for a wider audience to test

In the past week we inform you of the GNOME project's plans to allow us to install your GNOME-OS on real hardware. Personally, when I think of this operating system, KDE neon comes to mind, a KDE distribution based on Ubuntu, but they control much more and where they have more freedom to develop. What GNOME offers us, at least right now, is not an operating system to use as the main option, but they do control it completely and in it we can test everything they are preparing in the fastest way.

For some time now, the system was available to testbut a few hours ago have thrown a new image that we can run in software like GNOME Boxes, the proposal of the same project to launch and install virtual machines. And it is that, although it seems that the intention is that we can install it natively, for the moment it is best to virtualize it.

GNOME OS, the fastest way to test what's new on the famous desktop

As we read in the release note, the new image is available from this link. Keep in mind that it is not an ISO image, but an IMG that will force us to carry out several previous steps if we want to use it in GNOME Boxes. To execute it in the normal version (APT), we must first execute the following command:

virt-install --name GNOMEOS --boot uefi --video virtio --memory 2048
--import --disk disk.img

If we are using the Flatpak Nightly version of gnome-boxes, we must unzip the file and convert it to qcow2 by following these steps:

1. We execute the command "qemu-img convert disk.img disk.qcow2" without the quotes.
2. Later, already in GNOME Boxes, we add a new virtual machine.
3. Next, we choose "GNOME Nightly x86_x64.
4. Finally, we choose the qcow image.

Although this IMG is ready for testing by any interested user, its main goal is for use by GNOME maintainers and developers. Although the operating system is improving its hardware support, the image is still intended for use in virtualization software like the one offered by the same project. If in the future it becomes a better option for any type of user, it is a question that only time will be able to answer.