19 days ago I announced my plans here on Lemmy and after four weeks and ~300 hours in total, I can finally share the first ISO of my project with this community. “sometime next week” yeah that was optimistic lmao I want to thank you again for the feedback on the initial announcement and I can say I tried my best to address and implement a lot of your suggestions!
For the people that haven’t read the last post, this is the basic gist of it:
Unlike immutable distributions that lock you out of the native package manager and force you into sandboxes, Plutonium-239 keeps the core Arch experience intact. You still get the bleeding-edge Arch repositories and the power of the AUR but all of that with a 5-20% performance boost from a heavily optimized kernel and the peace of mind of an unbreakable safety net underneath.
For the ISO and the in-depth technical documentation, please visit my website at the link in the title!
The 0.0.1 version is a pre-release/in-development version meant for experienced people interested in this project. I tested it extensively and I’m running it for a few days now on my Thinkpad myself, however I can IN NO WAY guarantee that this is 100% viable to daily-drive just yet.
I’m very thankful for every person that considers testing this distro in a VM or on a secondary PC to contribute to the development of this project. Any feedback is appreciated and I hope my work can be of value to you!
Edit: from the feedback that was pm’d to me so far it seems like it’s working fine when it’s running but two people had issues with the hardware detection during the install. If you are experiencing a similar issue, please send me your hardware specs and the output of the log where it failed and I’ll be able to make it more robust!
Lots of people with Thinkpads, I respect it haha. Yes, code can be contributed via Codeberg, donations via Liberapay, both are greatly apprechiated! Both links are on the website, but I’ll put them here for your convenience: https://codeberg.org/cantosun/pu-239 https://liberapay.com/Pu-239/donate
They are workhorses under Linux :D Thank you for the links, i will take a look and will figure some way out.
I have a shitty X13 Gen 1 myself, which was the first machine (well apart from the probably 50 VMs I spun up during testing) to run this distro! I think the first 5 PCs (that I know of) were Thinkpads, I love it.
i tried it today on my T480 :) Installation was easy but then I got looking for the declerative file to edit my installation. Do you consider creating a forum for discussions and stuff for cooperation?
Either pu-239-update for the gui or /var/lib/pu-239/packages.list manual!
Hmm, I’m undecided. Me personally, I couldn’t handle running a forum due to my autism, that would burn me out instantly. Having one entirely community run with me occasionally lurking in like I do here would probably be the only realistic option.