Carbs Linux is a source-based Linux(r) distribution that aims to be
simple, flexible and extensible while staying as pragmatic and practical
as possible.  The system can consist of as much or as little as its user
can intend to.


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.


[Carbs Packaging Tools] <https://github.com/CarbsLinux/cpt>


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>


Links
=====

  - IRC - `#carbslinux' on freenode
  - Reddit - [r/carbslinux]
  - [Mailing Lists]


[r/carbslinux] <https://reddit.com/r/carbslinux>

[Mailing Lists] <file:mailing-lists.org>


News
====

  [RSS Feed] | [See all news]


[RSS Feed] <file:./news.xml>

[See all news] <file:./news>

[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 16, 2020] <file:../news/20200916.html>


[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.


[Sep 03, 2020] <file:../news/20200903.html>


[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-*'.


[Jul 27, 2020] <file:../news/20200727.html>


[Jun 17, 2020]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  A new rootfs tarball including the changes to the core is released and
  can be found on the downloads page.


[Jun 17, 2020] <file:../news/20200617.html>


[May 26, 2020]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  An initial version for binary package management is released. It can
  be found on the [GitHub page].


[May 26, 2020] <file:../news/20200526.html>

[GitHub page] <https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss-bin>