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Welcome to the official Vanilla GNU/Linux git repository.
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Vanilla GNU/Linux is a new distribution that uses XBPS as its package system,
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The X Binary Package System has been designed from scratch, please visit
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http://code.google.com/p/xbps for more information.
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Vanilla GNU/Linux is a simple and minimal distribution that can be customized
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in many ways, currently there are ~1500 packages in the stable repository that you can
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build. There is support for i686 and x86_64 architectures, more
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may be added in a future (i.e. ARM) but it's not a high priority.
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Some features:
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- It's not a fork or customized version of any distro, it has been created
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from scratch and making it a lightweight alternative. Base system takes
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150MB approximately.
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- Rolling release.
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- Uses the latest stable Linux kernel, the development snapshot from kernel.org
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can also be installed in parallel.
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- Kernel images/modules are never removed, providing an always-bootable system.
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- Uses a modified "initramfs-tools" version from Debian to handle initial
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ramdisk images.
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- Uses a modified "casper" version from Ubuntu to boot from live images.
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- Uses a modified "OpenRC" version from Gentoo to handle the init/boot process.
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- Uses /run directory as tmpfs by default, with symlinks to /tmp, /var/tmp,
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/var/lock, /var/run, /dev/shm.
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- Uses its own binary package system: XBPS. A fast alternative to Debian's
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dpkg/apt, RedHat's RPM, ArchLinux' pacman, etc.
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- You don't need wrappers of wrappers for the XBPS utils to rebuild/reinstall
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packages. The provided tools is all that you need.
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- Uses a BSD port-like system to build binary packages in chroot jails,
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without requiring root permissions. Build packages as a regular user without interfering
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with your installed system!
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When a new XBPS stable version comes out, a new live image is created for
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testing purposes with the minimal base system, you can find them at:
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http://code.google.com/p/xbps
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If you have questions or contributions please use the google groups forum:
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http://groups.google.com/group/xbps
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Enjoy and happy hacking!
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