AliveOS

The Spark That Started AliveOS

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We are reaching out to the community for collaboration on an important initiative: the creation and maintenance of a Cinnamon desktop fork whose primary goal is to preserve long-term X11/Xlibre compatibility, ensure fast integration of critical fixes and new features,...

Small but nice update: you can now leave comments on blog posts.

It has been a while since the last update. Not because the project is dead. Far from it. But because life happened, as it tends to do, especially in summer. Let me explain.

There is a particular stage in any project where you are not quite building the thing yet, but you are definitely doing things. The pieces are scattered across the table, some of them work, some of them are held together...

Every distribution has an origin story. Most are boring. “We wanted a simpler Linux” they say, and then ship forty gigabytes of snaps. AliveOS’s story is not that. AliveOS begins not with a grand vision, but with a single annoying...

A fair question we hear often: if a power user already knows how to customize an Arch install, why build a developer-focused distro at all? It is a good challenge. Let us have a go at it.

Choosing a default browser for AliveOS was not a decision we took lightly. Developers spend a significant portion of their day in the browser, and our goal was to ship something that respects both your productivity and your privacy. After...

We have been quiet on one question that comes up a lot: where does AliveOS stand on AI? The short version is simple.

A couple of days on from our welcome post, and things are moving. Here is a quick look at what has come together since launch and what is currently in flight.

Welcome to the official home of AliveOS — a minimalist, Arch-based, developer-optimized Linux distribution. This is our first news post, so here is a quick rundown of what we are building and what to expect in the lead-up to the...