YVIS

A Linux distribution built from source, with its own package manager.

Linux From Scratch 13.1 with systemd. Rolling release, prebuilt binaries, for people who like to know what is on their machine.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Works today

Base systemEvery package of the book built from source in CI, then checked.
Live ISOBoots on BIOS and UEFI, from a disc or a USB stick. Ventoy: being tested.
YoneSigned packages, atomic installs, file verification. Written in Rust.

Coming

DesktopsKDE Plasma, minimal. Hyprland, with its author's dotfiles.
AppsFlatpak with Flathub. Firefox, kitty.
HardwareNVIDIA open modules. Firmware is the only non-free part.
Installerext4, optional encryption, zram.

Yone

$ sudo yone update      # signed repository indexes
$ sudo yone install kitty
$ sudo yone upgrade
$ sudo yone verify      # every installed file, checked

Download

yvis-0.1-x86_64.iso 554 MiB · SHA-256

A preview: the base system as a live ISO that boots to a root console. No desktop yet. BIOS or UEFI, Secure Boot off. Release notes.

$ sha256sum -c yvis-0.1-x86_64.iso.sha256
$ sudo dd if=yvis-0.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M oflag=sync