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# Everest Linux

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

## Why Everest?

Simple: Everest strives to be simple by design, coming with no pre-installed bloatware, or spyware. Everest follows the UNIX philosphy when possible

Stable: Everest is designed to be as stable as possible. Adopting a unique approach to package management, update any package whenever you want, or not at all. Plus, major package dependencies are not resolved automatically, reducing the possibility of needing to downgrade a library.

Fast: Glacier downloads program source code from the Everest Package Index, then compiles it locally on your system, resulting in an extremely optimized experience. Simply define the makeflags for your system and you're ready to go.

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

Flexible: Everest supports higly customized installations. Any part of Everest can be replaced.

# Ready to try Everest?

Read the installation guide here.

# News

10/7/22 - Glacier v3 enters testing

6/21/22 - everestlinux.org has been registered, all packages have been migrated to git.everestlinux.org.

6/9/22 - Glacier v2.1 has been released

5/31/22 - Glacier v2.0 has been released