<strong>Simple: </strong><p>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.</p>
<strong>Stable: </strong><p>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.</p>
<strong>Fast: </strong><p>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.</p>
<strong>Lightweight: </strong><p>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.</p>
<strong>Flexible: </strong><p>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.</p>
<newshead><strong>4/4/24 - All new releases on hold indefinitely</strong></newshead>
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<p>While work has been done on releasing Everest and Glacier, these releases are on hold indefinitely.</p>
<p>I have decided to rewrite Glacier in C, which has added a significant amount of time needed for the release. This will ultimately be a good decision, since the rewritten Glacier will be much more portable than the Bash version.</p>
<p>Additionally, I have recently committed to Assumption University to study cybersecurity. Hopefully I will be able to integrate this project into my studies if possible.</p>
<p>Ultimately, this is a hobby project. I do not anticipate it to ever become big (or at least as big as some other distros), however if you are interested in helping out, shoot me a message at liamwaldron@everestlinux.org.</p>
<newshead><strong>12/20/23 - Everest v1.0.0 and Glacier v4.0.0 put on hold</strong></newshead>
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<p>Unfortunately, the releases scheduled for January 1st are being put on hold.</p>
<p>The past few months have been very busy in terms of college stuff. Thankfully, I have been accepted into multiple schools and have a good idea of where I'm going.</p>
<p>Since this stuff is clearing up, I now have more time to work on releasing Everest and Glacier. Most importantly, I now have a testbed to run everything on.</p>
<p>The new target release date is March 1st, 2024.</p>
<p>Once again, thank you for your continued support of this project.</p>
<p>Glacier v4 is another complete overhaul of Glacier. This new release includes dependency resolution, multiple downloads, and a new, concise package format.</p>
<p>Since Glacier v4 uses a completely different package format, it is thus <strong>incompatible</strong> with all previous releases.</p>
<p>No time estimate has been given for this release.</p>
<newshead><strong>1/26/23 - System image builds nearly complete</strong></newshead>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
