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 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.

Ready to try Everest?

Read the installation guide here.

News

4/25/23 - Announcing Glacier v4

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.

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

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

1/26/23 - Website overhaul

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

1/26/23 - System image builds nearly complete

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.

11/1/22 - System image builts have begun

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.

10/25/22 - Glacier v3 is released

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.

10/7/22 - Glacier v3 enters testing

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.

8/31/22 - Announcing Glacier v3

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.

6/21/22 - Registering everestlinux.org

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.

5/31/22 - Glacier v2 is released

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

and removing the whole "enter package name" scheme.