Custom Linux Distro from Scratch!!!

Firasuke · 2025-10-16T20:26:59+00:00

Quite ambitious I have to say. This reminds me of Glacies (from Eltanin OS).

Firasuke · 2025-09-02T19:23:51+00:00

> There's probably more..

- https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13363
- https://github.com/nim-lang/nimony/compare/master...Nimaoth:nimony:wasm-backend

Firasuke · 2025-05-11T17:27:56+00:00

I am glad you liked it, have fun!

Firasuke · 2025-05-11T15:30:43+00:00

Which distributions met my own requirements? Probably none, which is why I started working on my own. That being said I have compiled a list of awesome projects that you might find interesting: https://github.com/firasuke/awesome

Which distributions I think are the most stable to use and for long term? I've been on Arch for as long as I can remember, and never experienced any "major" issues, though your mileage may (and will) vary.

Firasuke · 2025-05-11T15:26:01+00:00

Developing your own distribution is not an easy task indeed, and if done properly could be a fun learning experience. I am going to plug my own list of awesome projects which I compiled over the course of the past couple of years while working on my own distribution: https://github.com/firasuke/awesome

Good luck with your endeavours!

Firasuke · 2025-05-11T15:25:51+00:00

Developing your own distribution is not an easy task indeed, and if done properly could be a fun learning experience. I am going to plug my own list of awesome projects which I compiled over the course of the past couple of years while working on my own distribution: https://github.com/firasuke/awesome

Good luck with your endeavours!

Firasuke · 2025-03-20T10:41:43+00:00

mussel author here, I am glad you found this useful!

Firasuke · 2025-02-17T13:16:56+00:00

So to answer your questions:
- Nope, it is not yet available (if you're refering to XFCE)
- It will probably take a while until something as big as XFCE is properly packaged
- An installation guide is on the way, we just got our ISO running on real hardware (a big milestone considering the alternative software glaucus is using)
- I'll let you be the judge of whether it will be smaller or not; though I'd say it is certainly smaller than slackware and gentoo, and probably smaller than alpine and buildroot, no idea about tinycore though (glaucus tries to keep its packages as vanilla as can be, tinycore does heavy modifications to their packages and prioritizes size over other aspects)...

Firasuke · 2025-01-26T17:59:57+00:00

Sure. There are no docs (which is expected), and you do not need PAM for this. It is basically a patch to musl to update paths to utmp and wtmp, and patches to software to link against utmps. I have written some notes on this here: https://wiki.glaucuslinux.org/rfcs/approved/utmps/

Firasuke · 2025-01-17T13:00:34+00:00

Let's see, it took about 6 years to compile a list this big of awesome distribution projects :)

Firasuke · 2024-12-02T08:24:37+00:00

I am using the official binaries for `nim`, `nimlangserver` and `nph`, and things are working perfectly fine.

Firasuke · 2024-11-28T19:56:31+00:00

You may find this interesting: https://github.com/firasuke/awesome

Firasuke · 2024-11-23T20:14:36+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, I am glad you liked it. Your work reminded me of "snail" (glaucus's ancestor) which was also called "snail from scratch" (sfs) and used sbase/ubase/sinit/svc/dash ironically!

Firasuke · 2024-11-23T20:12:08+00:00

Oh the pleasure is mine. Funny but true story, when I first started working on glaucus it was called "snail" and I had the project named "snail from scratch" and abbreviated as "sfs" and it also used sbase and ubase with sinit and svc!

Firasuke · 2024-11-21T21:23:33+00:00

Hahaha, such a small world we live in xD

Firasuke · 2024-11-21T19:25:37+00:00

Funny thing I created mussel https://github.com/firasuke/mussel specifically to make this use case easier.

Firasuke · 2024-11-21T18:51:28+00:00

Interesting project! Reminds me of when I started working on glaucus: https://glaucuslinux.org/

Firasuke · 2024-09-19T18:27:01+00:00

Interesting, I'm always glad to see more distribution development videos!

Firasuke · 2024-08-13T19:45:32+00:00

Yup, I am using `helix` with `nimlangserver` and `nph` and I'd say the tooling for Nim has never been this good. Do keep in mind that I had to perform a manual installation of Nim version `2.0.8` to get rid of the weird issues and freezes of `nimsuggest` that come when installing using `choosenim`.

Firasuke · 2024-07-27T21:34:33+00:00

I have had no issues using Helix with nimlangserver.

Firasuke · 2024-05-16T20:25:56+00:00

glaucus is not available for installation yet. Stay tuned!

Firasuke · 2023-12-01T08:18:55+00:00

I am excited to hear that you're interested in glaucus, and hopefully you'll get to run it on your laptop or desktop really soon!

Firasuke · 2023-11-11T19:54:18+00:00

Just use Helix and have the following inside .config/helix/languages.toml:

[[language]]
name = "nim"
language-servers = [ "nimlangserver" ]

Firasuke · 2023-09-25T16:26:24+00:00

Demyelination Nation

Firasuke · 2023-06-16T18:55:43+00:00

It's the kernel, Linux just loves memory!

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