Pu-239
pu-239.org
Pu-239 is an atomic Arch Linux distribution: sealed read-only root, ostree A/B deployments with automatic rollback, and the 1000 Hz linux-cachyos kernel.

As the title and the website say, I’m currently making a distro with the goal that you don’t have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.

As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.

If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I’ll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I love the idea, apart from “user applications are flatpaks”. I’d love to install non flatpak applications.

    Plus points for my perceived lack of AI sloppiness.

    • yxc999@lemmy.mlOP
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      35 minutes ago

      I do plan to have a way too “unlock” it so you can for example enter a console command to be able to install packages like vanilla Arch but they still get applied atomically. I dislike Flatpaks myself so for me to use it on my main workstation, I’d have to be able to never touch a flatpak as well haha. For the average user that wants a “just works” distro like SteamOS but also some of the speed-up from CachyOS, Flatpaks seem like the most intuitive decision however.

      • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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        17 minutes ago

        Sounds great and exactly how I’d want it! So you basically have a base set of packages which are guaranteed to be stable, but you can still layer stuff on top?

        Maybe you can also have multiple boot entries like a “safe mode” or a way to boot different combinations of packages.

        I’d really like to have a somewhat declarative way to manage the software on my laptop and desktop both, the latter being a superset as I need gaming and LLM related software there (which I don’t need on my laptop).

        I’ll certainly play around with your distro as soon as it’s out. Don’t know when though, as I need to take a few precautions to not fuck up my data first 😅