README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,29 @@
 ![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/everest-linux/amogus3016/main/new%20everest%20logo.png)
 
 # Everest Linux
-**TBD**
+**The enthusiast's distro**
+
+Everest comes in 2 flavors, Everest Hike and Everest Summit.
+
+Everest Hike aims to provide users with a reasonable amount of Linux experience a comfortable system.
+
+Everest Summit aims to provide advanced users with a highly flexible, customizeable, and lightweight system.
+
+![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/everest-linux/amogus3016/main/Everest%20default%20desktop.png)
+*The default Xfce configuration on the Xfce installation ISO*
+
+**Thanks to the following people and projects:**
+
+- Linux From Scratch contributors (https://linuxfromscratch.org)
+- OpenRC developers (https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc)
+- systemd developers (https://github.com/systemd/systemd)
+- Homebrew developers (https://brew.sh)
+- GNU and FSF (https://gnu.org) (https://fsf.org)
+- zsh and OhMyZsh developers (https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh) (https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh)
+- The Everest Linux community
+
+**Check out our other projects:**
+
+Sherpa Terminal Emulator: https://github.com/everest-linux/sherpa
+
+xinfo System Information Script: https://github.com/everest-linux/xinfo