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
1/26/23 - Website overhaul
The Everest website has been completely overhauled with a
cleaner, sleeker look.
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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.
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11/1/22 - System image builds 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.