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## Everest Linux

A highly flexible, general purpose meta-distribution, built off of the monolithic Linux kernel and Glacier package manager.

## Advantages of Everest

Simple:

Everest strives to be simple by design, coming with no pre-installed bloatware or spyware. Everest follows the UNIX philosophy whenever possible, and tries to avoid including large programs in its base system.

Stable:

Everest is designed to be as stable as possible. All base system programs are statically linked, and can be updated with git-controlled root filesystems.

Fast:

Glacier downloads program source code and compiles it locally on your system. The end result is an extremely fast and optimized package. Simply define CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and MAKEFLAGS, and you're ready to go.

Lightweight:

Everest uses Busybox for its userland tools and init system, and musl for its standard C library. All of these tools are designed to be as lightweight as possible.

Flexible:

Everest supports highly customized installations. Want to replace Busybox init with systemd, openrc, runit, dinit, or s6? Or replace musl with uClibc or Glibc? All of these are possible, and encouraged.

## Try Everest

## News

<newshead>9/29/23 - Big news at Everest</newshead>

Many things have been happening at Everest in the past few months.

Glacier v4 is almost complete, and is due for a release sometime before 2024.

Everest v1.0 is nearing its completion as well, and should be released before 2024.

We do not expect these dates to change, but if we need to polish things up more, we'll take that opportunity.

Finally, all Everest websites have transitioned to the nord colorscheme. We may bring back the k2 colorscheme at a later date.

Thank you for your continued support everyone!

-The Everest Team

<newshead>6/8/23 - New Everest logo</newshead>

The Everest logo has been slightly redesigned. This includes a darker color palette.

<newshead>4/25/23 - Announcing Glacier v4</newshead>

Glacier v4 is another complete overhaul of Glacier. This new release includes dependency resolution, multiple downloads, and a new, concise package format.

Since Glacier v4 uses a completely different package format, it is thus incompatible with all previous releases.

No time estimate has been given for this release.

<warnhead>WARNING:</warnhead>

Glacier v4 is highly unstable and experimental. Use at your own risk.

<newshead>2/1/23 - Manual intervention required for /etc/glacier.conf</newshead>

With the new Glacier update, changes were made to the download backend. Please ensure your current configuration is overwritten while updating.

<newshead>1/26/23 - Website overhaul</newshead>

The Everest website has been completely overhauled with a cleaner, sleeker look.

<newshead>1/26/23 - System image builds nearly complete</newshead>

A system image is coming together. This includes the toolchain We are still ironing out issues with Busybox's wget implementation, which fails to support https.

<newshead>11/1/22 - System image builds have begun</newshead>

Today, the team has begun compiling system images. All programs have compiled correctly, with the exception of the system toolchain. This is a very important component, and the system cannot function without it.

<newshead>10/25/22 - Glacier v3 is released</newshead>

After nearly 2 months of hard work, Glacier v3 is finally out. This release includes many stability improvements,

changes to the codebase to improve readability, and a new build system.

<newshead>10/7/22 - Glacier v3 enters testing</newshead>

Glacier v3 is now available for testing. Please note that this release is not stable and therefore should not be run on a production machine.

<newshead>8/31/22 - Announcing Glacier v3</newshead>

Glacier v2, which was release back in June, functions great, however does not function like a typical package manager would.

Additionally, adding functionality is very difficult as the codebase is very complex and messy. Glacier v3 aims to fix these issues.

<newshead>6/21/22 - Registering everestlinux.org</newshead>

Everest now owns a domain. This allows us to host our own website, rather than using GitHub (which is owned by Microsoft). This gives

us more control over our work.

<newshead>5/31/22 - Glacier v2 is released</newshead>

Glacier v2 has been released. This version provides several improvements to the codebase, such as condensing everything to a single executable.

<newshead>4/20/22 - Glacier v1 is released</newshead>

Glacier has released a stable point in its development.

In addition, color and unicode support has been added.

<newshead>4/5/22 - Glacier v0.6rc</newshead>

The package format has been updated to include timestamping capabilities.

These timestamps will be queried along with a package.

<newshead>3/28/22 - Glacier v0.5rc</newshead>

Added a proper cleanup operation after a transaction finishes.

Additionally, caching support has been added.

<newshead>3/10/22 - Glacier v0.2rc</newshead>

Added proper error handling.