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<title>Everest Linux - Home</title>
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<a href="index.html">Home</a>
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<a href="about.html">About</a>
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<a href="install.html">Install</a>
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<a href="https://git.everestlinux.org/EverestLinux/glacier-pkgs">Packages</a>
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<a href="download.html">Downloads</a>
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<a href="https://git.everestlinux.org/EverestLinux/wiki">Wiki</a>
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<a href="https://git.everestlinux.org">Git</a>
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<h2>Everest Linux</h2>
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<p>A highly flexible, general purpose meta-distribution,</p>
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<p>built off of the monolithic Linux kernel and Glacier</p>
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<p>package manager.</p>
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<h2>Why Everest?</h2>
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<strong>Simple: </strong><p>Everest strives to be simple by design,</p>
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<p>coming with no pre-installed bloatware or spyware.</p>
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<p>Everest follows the UNIX philosophy whenever possible,</p>
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<p>and tries to avoid including large programs in its base system.</p>
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<strong>Stable: </strong><p>Everest is designed to be as stable</p>
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<p>as possible. All base system programs are statically linked,</p>
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<p>and can be updated with git-controlled root filesystems.</p>
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<strong>Fast: </strong><p>Glacier downloads program source</p>
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<p>code and compiles it locally on your system. The end result</p>
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<p>is an extremely fast and optimized package. Simply define</p>
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<p>CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and MAKEFLAGS, and you're ready to go.</p>
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<strong>Lightweight: </strong><p>Everest uses Busybox for its userland</p>
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<p>tools and init system, and musl for its standard C library.</p>
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<p>All of these tools are designed to be as lightweight as possible.</p>
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<strong>Flexible: </strong><p>Everest supports highly customized</p>
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<p>installations. Want to replace Busybox init with systemd, openrc, runit,</p>
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<p>dinit, or s6? Or replace musl with uClibc or Glibc? All of these are</p>
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<p>possible, and encouraged.</p>
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<h2>Ready to try Everest?</h2>
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<p><a href="install.html">Read the installation guide here.</a></p>
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<h2>News</h2>
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<p>1/26/23 - Website overhaul</p>
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<p>The Everest website has been completely overhauled with a</p>
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<p>cleaner, sleeker look.</p>
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<p>----------------------------------------</p>
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<p>1/26/23 - System image builds nearly complete</p>
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<p>A system image is coming together. This includes the toolchain</p>
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<p>We are still ironing out issues with Busybox's wget implementation,</p>
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<p>which fails to support https.</p>
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<p>----------------------------------------</p>
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<p>11/1/22 - System image builds have begun</p>
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<p>Today, the team has begun compiling system images.</p>
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<p>All programs have compiled correctly, with the exception</p>
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<p>of the system toolchain. This is a very important component,</p>
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<p>and the system cannot function without it.</p>
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<p>----------------------------------------</p>
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<p>10/25/22 - Glacier v3 is released</p>
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<p>After nearly 2 months of hard work, Glacier v3 is finally out.</p>
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<p>This release includes many stability improvements,</p>
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<p>changes to the codebase to improve readability, and a new</p>
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<p>build system.</p>
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<p>----------------------------------------</p>
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<p>10/7/22 - Glacier v3 enters testing</p>
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<p>Glacier v3 is now available for testing. Please note that</p>
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<p>this release is not stable and therefore should not be run</p>
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<p>on a production machine.</p>
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<p>----------------------------------------</p>
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<p>8/31/22 - Announcing Glacier v3</p>
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<p>Glacier v2, which was release back in June, functions great,</p>
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<p>however does not function like a typical package manager would.</p>
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<p>Additionally, adding functionality is very difficult as the codebase</p>
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<p>is very complex and messy. Glacier v3 aims to fix these issues.</p>
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<p>6/21/22 - Registering everestlinux.org</p>
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<p>Everest now owns a domain. This allows us to host our own website,</p>
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<p>rather than using GitHub (which is owned by Microsoft). This gives</p>
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<p>us more control over our work.</p>
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<p>----------------------------------------</p>
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<p>5/31/22 - Glacier v2 is released</p>
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<p>Glacier v2 has been released. This version provides several improvements</p>
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<p>to the codebase, such as compressing everything to a single executable,</p>
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<p>and removing the whole "enter package name" scheme.</p>
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