glaucus
glaucus is an independent, open-source, general-purpose, bleeding-edge, rolling-release, source-based Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox, built from scratch around the suckless philosophy without sacrificing convenience.
Philosophy
Optimized for performance and size, glaucus strives to be as fast and minimal as possible while remaining clean, simple and most importantly convenient.
History
glaucus initially started out as a hobby project called snail, and has thus been under development for 5 years now.
For more information on glaucus's history, kindly refer to the History page in the wiki.
Inspiration
glaucus drew most of its inspiration from the Linux From Scratch (LFS) project and several other awesome projects.
Naming Convention
glaucus follows a strict naming convention so it's highly recommended that you refer to the Naming Convention page in the wiki before further reading.
Features
- Fast
- Minimal
- Clean
- Simple
- Convenient
Architectures
- aarch64
- armv6zk
- i686
- riscv64
- x86-64-v3
Releases
Kindly refer to the Releases page.
Wiki
Kindly refer to the Wiki for more information regarding glaucus.
Screenshots
Kindly refer to the screenshots repository to see glaucus in action.
Artwork
Kindly refer to artwork repository for glaucus related artwork.
Voyager
Firas Khalil Khana (firasuke) <[email protected]>
License
glaucus is licensed under the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license.
Dedication
This project is dedicated to my lovely family.