Carbs Linux is an in-development Linux® distribution with a suckless mindset. The base system consists of only the necessary programs to create a Linux distribution. Package Manager -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carbs Linux uses its own package manager [Carbs Packaging Tools], a POSIX shell package manager forked from KISS with the tool-based approach of xbps. Small base -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By default, Carbs Linux comes with busybox for coreutils, bearssl for its crypto library, musl libc, and other basic utilities that are required for building new software. The majority of the base packages are statically linked. 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 interoperability 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. [carbs-init]: https://github.com/CarbsLinux/repository/tree/master/core/carbs-init [Carbs Packaging Tools]: https://github.com/CarbsLinux/cpt Links -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IRC - `#carbslinux` on freenode * Reddit - [/r/carbslinux] * [Mailing Lists] [/r/carbslinux]: http://reddit.com/r/carbslinux [Mailing Lists]: /mailing-lists.html News -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [RSS Feed](/news.xml) | [See all news](/news.html) Sep 16 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The libressl "revert" was reverted. System update will replace libressl dependencies with bearssl. You may choose to keep or remove bearssl after the update. Sep 03 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The default TLS provider has been reverted to 'libressl'. System update will replace bearssl dependencies with libressl. You may choose to keep or remove bearssl after the update. Jul 27 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carbs Linux's fork of the `kiss` package manager has been renamed to `Carbs Packaging Tools` due to huge amount of changes. Your latest `kiss` update will handle the bootstrapping. You will need to rename your `KISS-*` variables to `CPT-*` Jun 17 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new rootfs tarball including the changes to the core is released and can be found on the downloads page. May 26 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An initial version for binary package management is released. It can be found on the [GitHub page]. [GitHub page]: https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss-bin