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