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


Small base
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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
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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
[kiss package manager]: https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss

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

[/r/carbslinux]: http://reddit.com/r/carbslinux
[Mailing Lists]: /mailing-lists.html

News
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### 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

### May 19 2020

A rootfs tarball targeting the i686 architecture has
been released. It can be found on the [downloads page]

[downloads page]: https://dl.carbslinux.org/releases/i686

### May 10 2020

A GCC 10.1.0 change causes a kernel panic for kernels built
with GCC 10.1. This issue can be resolved by applying this
[patch] to your kernel sources.

[patch]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/patch/?id=f670269a42bfdd2c83a1118cc3d1b475547eac22

### 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.