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.

Community

• Discord
• Gitter
• Reddit
• Telegram

Mirrors

• BitBucket
• Codeberg
• Framagit
• GitHub
• GitLab
• NotABug
• SourceForge
• SourceHut