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Ramix an Simple Linux Distribution Made from Scratching Following the Linux from Scratch Guide with Custom Scripts as well

FINALLY, SSL WORKS!!!

New Features

• Wayland (No Compositor)
• Wlroots
• Mesa
• OpenSSL as RXPKG
• CA-Certs Properly Compiled
• DRM Support
• GIT!!

We can now see the penguins and the new Kernel Panic screen thanks to DRM Support + GPU Support
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we only support virtio-gpu right now but planning to expand more!
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Hopefully, it’s the last devlog before the 1st Ship of this Project

also i couldn’t get tinywl working, will try it in next release 0.2

Thanks for following the dev till now!

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Ramix an Simple Linux Distribution Made from Scratching Following the Linux from Scratch Guide with Custom Scripts as well

WOWOWWOW, Finallly own package manager???

New Features

• iproute2
• iputils
• systemd-confs
• RX Package Manager

About the RX Package Manager

• The package manager is currently written in dart
• It currently stores packages at /var/lib/rxpkg/vol/<package>/<version>
• It symlinks it to main /, So it would be better i thought
• there’s also rxbuild . command to build .rx package it’s kind of like PKGBUILD

sample bash build.toml

version = 1

[build]
system = "autotools"

out_of_source = true

configure = [
    "--prefix=/usr",
    "--sysconfdir=/etc",
    "--localstatedir=/var",
    "--disable-nls"
]

make = [
    "-j${NPROC}"
]

install = [
    "DESTDIR=${DESTDIR}"
]

#sample bash manifest.toml

name = "bash"
version = "5.3.0"
release = 1

arch = "x86_64"

license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"

description = "GNU Bourne Again Shell"

homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/"

maintainer = "Ramix Team"

depends = [
    "glibc>=2.43",
    "readline>=8.3",
    "ncurses>=6.6"
]

Run rxbuild . and there you go your bash.rx package!!

You can find the latest ISO in my github release page!

Run it like this in qemu

qemu-system-x86_64  \    
       -cpu host \    
       -m 2G \    
       -cdrom Ramix.iso \    
       -netdev user,id=net0 \    
       -device e1000,netdev=net0 \    
       -enable-kvm 

Share your feedbacks in Comments section, I love it

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Ramix an Simple Linux Distribution Made from Scratching Following the Linux from Scratch Guide with Custom Scripts as well

Finally, SystemD Support!

SystemD now boots as PID 1 at started and now we also have GETTY Support User Management

New Features

• Python 3
• Meson, Ninja, CMake
• Sqlite3, Shadow
• SystemD!!!
• Linux-PAM
• Kmod for modprobe and such commands
• Login Support!!

Upcoming Changes

• Networking
• Graphical Interface
• Recovery

Grab the Test Release ISO from Github

https://github.com/kwe26/ramix-lfs/releases/tag/0.1

QEMU Command

qemu-system-x86_64 \    
       -cpu host \    
       -m 2G \    
       -cdrom Ramix.iso \    
       -netdev user,id=net0 \    
       -device e1000,netdev=net0 \    
       -enable-kvm

And it will startup!!!

Other Changes

*since we had prepared GCC and Compiler Enviorment inside the Chroot, from now all the new libs, programs will be compiled inside the chroot now with the inclusion of scripts_chroot and invoke-chroot.sh *

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Ramix an Simple Linux Distribution Made from Scratching Following the Linux from Scratch Guide with Custom Scripts as well

Finally, It can Now Boot on QEMU

Steps i followed to make it bootable

• First i Compressed the Rootfs into rootfs.squashfs
• Created an Initramfs with Busybox to mount and switch root to squashfs
• Grub to Boot into Kernel using the Initramfs.

There’s still some issues with GCC not working properly due to Pass 2 Compiler not being compiled

QEMU COMMAND

qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -m 2G -cdrom Ramix.iso -enable-kvm

ISO Link for Testing

https://github.com/kwe26/ramix-lfs/releases/tag/testing

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Ramix an Simple Linux Distribution Made from Scratching Following the Linux from Scratch Guide with Custom Scripts as well

Today I’ve Compiled Basic GCC, Make, GNU Bash And Coreutils, Kernel Headers

I’m trying to Get this to around usable-state Distro as TUI and SystemD!!

Compiling GMP required an Patch for GCC 16 Which i found on Gitlab, I’ve referenced it on Repo.

My Goals

• Get it Boot on QEMU
• Basic Internet Access (i doubt)
• QuickJS & Python

Beyond Current Goals

• X.org/Wayland Support
• A Basic Desktop Manager
• Support for Real Hardwares

Forgive me for the Logo, I’ll create an proper one in time being