glaucus
A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox.
Features
- Simple
- Lightweight
- Pragmatic
- Unobtrusive
Software
- bc-gh is the default bc implementation
- booster is the default initramfs generator
- byacc is the default yacc implementation
- flex is the default lex implementation
- gettext-tiny is the default gettext implementation
- iproute2 and iputils are the default networking utilities
- lbzip2 is the default bzip2 implementation
- less is the default terminal pager
- libarchive is the default archive and compression library
- libedit is the default command line editor library
- libressl is the default TLS library
- mandoc is the default manual pages reader
- mawk is the default awk implementation
- muon is the default meson implementation
- musl is the default C standard library
- netbsd-curses is the default curses library
- nsss is the default NSS implementation
- opendoas is the default privilege escalation tool
- pigz is the default gzip implementation
- pkgconf is the default pkg-config implementation
- plocate is the default locate implementation
- plzip is the default lzip implementation
- python 3 is the default Python version
- s6 is the default init system
- s6-rc is the default service manager
- samurai is the default Ninja implementation
- toybox is the default unix user space
- ugrep is the default grep implementation
- utmps is the default utmpx implementation
- vim is the default text editor
- wayland is the default display server protocol
- wget2 is the default wget version
- yash is the default unix shell
- zlib-ng is the default zlib implementation
Security
- Executable-Space Protection (ESP)
- Position Independent Code (PIC)
- Position Independent Executables (PIE)
- RELocation Read-Only (RELRO)
- Stack Smashing Protection (SSP)
Architectures
- aarch64
- riscv64
- x86-64-v3
Support for architectures other than x86-64-v3 is provided through native compilation under QEMU.
Download
Kindly refer to the Releases page.
Screenshots
Kindly refer to the screenshots repository to see glaucus in action.
Wiki
Kindly refer to the Wiki for more information regarding glaucus.
Artwork
Kindly refer to artwork repository for glaucus related artwork.
Community
As glaucus matures, it is only natural for more voyagers to join the project:
Voyager
Firas Khalil Khana (firasuke) <[email protected]>
License
glaucus is licensed under the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license.
Inspiration
glaucus drew inspiration from many awesome projects.
Dedication
This project is dedicated to my lovely family.