Carbs Linux - a simple busybox linux distribution
Carbs Linux is an in-development Linux® distribution with a suckless mindset. The system will consist of only the necessary programs to create a Linux distribution.
Carbs Linux is built upon the world’s best Linux distribution KISS Linux and uses kiss as its package manager, which has proven to be extremely flexible. I aim to move Carbs to an even more suckless path.
By default, Carbs Linux comes with busybox for coreutils, runit as the system supervisor, and sinit as the init, though nothing holds you from changing any of them.
A new rootfs tarball has been released. See the downloads page
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
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.
IMPORTANT! Carbs-init update to be released on 17th of February will require manual intervention. I am holding this update back so people can see it before they update their system (even though the update will show the same message as this). The rationale for the update is explained below the intervention.
# There is an explanation for each init
# You only need to follow the instructions
# for your own init-system
## busybox-init
# If you did not edit your inittab simply
# move inittab.new to inittab
-> mv /etc/inittab.new /etc/inittab
# If you did edit your inittab you can use
# a simple sed command to remove the necessary lines
-> sed -i '/getty/d;/runsvdir/d' /etc/inittab
## runit
# same as busybox-init, if you did not edit
# /etc/runit/2 move 2.new to 2
-> mv /etc/runit/2.new /etc/runit/2
# else
-> vim /etc/runit/2
# open your 2 file and remove the for loop containing
# getty commands. If you are using runit, it is recommended
# to comment out /etc/init/runit.boot
## sinit/minit
# If you did not edit your {sinit-,}launch-services.boot
# you can simply remove it.
-> rm -f /etc/init/launch-services.boot /etc/init/sinit-launch-services.boot
# This should leave you without any issues, and you can safely reboot.
Carbs-init update is to make sure init systems do not clash, and do not have to use different files. This is a sensible update both for the user user and for the maintainer side.
To give an example, before this update busybox-init was managing getty
through inittab, runit was managing through /etc/runit/2, and
minit/sinit were launching from /etc/init/launch-services.boot. This
is a configuration nightmare for everyone, and since I am maintaining
and constantly testing those init providers, a huge nightmare for me.
This is a Quality of Life update.
Runit is now released on the core repository! You can now replace busybox-init with runit-init. You can also replace the busybox runit utilities with the actual runit. This will reduce the dependency on busybox greatly.
Web Server is now on a Carbs Linux server. It is not complete yet, but I will be adding a little more for the intended functionality. Downtimes can be expected.
UPDATE: ssl is now working.
UPDATE2: downloads are back again.
Expect downtime on Jan 24 2020 22:00 UTC as I will be migrating this web server to my Carbs Linux server!
sinit has been taken to core, and is now officially supported
Busybox update reqires manual intervention
The new busybox package conflicts with the pre-update busybox-init. That’s why
you should rebuild and install busybox-init before doing the update.
# Do a kiss update first (but don't actually update it yet), or manually pull the git repository
$ kiss u # Cancel this operation after it asks for you to confirm the update
# Install the busybox-init package
$ kiss b busybox-init && kiss i busybox-init
# Continue your update as you normally would.
$ kiss u
I have moved runit and logging utilities from the busybox-init package to the busybox package, which is the cause of these conflicts.
carbs-rootfs-20200110.tar.xz was released
Happy new year, everyone! I am back after some long silence. I was unable to commit for a while, but I have pulled some new updates from the KISS repository, added some of my own. This week I will be changing/adding some things.
Important things are,
carbs-sinitcarbs-rootfs-20191218.tar.xz was released
Installation instruction are now complete. A review would be greatly appreciated!
Carbs Linux Wiki is now available to be edited and updated by the users go to the wiki to obtain more information.
February 2020 EDIT: Changed link for wiki
Busybox and Busybox-init has been seperated into two different packages. This is for adding standalone runit/runit-init to the repositories.
First alpha release was made. See the downloads page.
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