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Carbs Linux is an in-development Linux® distribution with a suckless mindset. The base system will consist of only the necessary programs to create a Linux distribution.

Package Manager

Carbs Linux uses its own fork of the kiss package manager which is an extremely flexible package manager.

Small base

By default, Carbs Linux comes with busybox for coreutils, and basic utilities for building new software. The rootfs tarball is not bigger than 40MB.

Multiple Init Support

Carbs Linux has support for multiple init systems and service supervisors. In the main repository are

sinit
busybox-init (SysVinit clone)
runit-init

for init systems, and

sysmgr
busybox-runit
runit

for service supervisors. The carbs-init package is the collection of init scripts that ensure the interoperatability of these init and service systems, and make it easier for the user to switch to their preferred combinations of system supervision.

Nothing holds you back, however, from ditching any of these and packaging some other system supervision technique along with your own init scripts.

News

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Apr 27 2020

A new rootfs tarball has been released! You can see it on https://dl.carbslinux.org/releases!

EDIT: A new bug fix release has been made.

Apr 10 2020

IRC channel can now be accessed from #carbslinux at freenode!

Apr 06 2020

A new rootfs tarball has been released. See the downloads page

Apr 05 2020

Carbs Linux repositories will be hosted only on Github. Commits will be pushed there, and not the repository. You have until May 4, 2020 Monday to switch your remotes to https://github.com/CarbsLinux/repository. The git repository will continue to be served until then (without additional commits).

You can switch your remote by executing the following command on your repository directory.

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/CarbsLinux/repository

Feb 18 2020

A new tarball is released. It can be found on https://dl.carbslinux.org.

edit: I have removed the tarball because of a bootstrapping issue. I will be re-adding it later today.

edit 2: I have added a tarball (20200219) to reflect my recent changes on Busybox.

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