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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    4 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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      2 hours 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
        2·
        2 hours 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 😅

        • yxc999@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Currently you can select either KDE Plasma or Gnome in the calamares installer and other than that it just slaps Intel and AMD CPU firmware on it along with Intel, AMD and NVIDIA drivers so yeah, a boated but working list of packages. I thought about making a quick tick-box solution but decided to just make it work right in the first place and get a proper hardware-detection going. The first version will be shipped with just that, for 0.0.2 to be released, I want it to have that kind of developer access where you can add or remove the packages you want, just like on a pre-configured Arch distro. That’s the first priotity after the initial release so thank you for your interest and I hope you will be happy with it in the future!!