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!
Yeah, Linux distros using something like Discord always seemed very odd to me. I mean okay, if you cater to gamers then I guess it makes sense, but you won’t catch me doing that. Lemmy is the only social media I have anymore, the rest is just braindead and bot-infested.
I finally finished reading the whole page at https://pu-239.org/
Pretty awesome. I wanted to do it earlier, but life happens. Now that the weekend is coming up, I want to give it a shot.
After reading the page, I could not find any mention of the home directory.
Since I do distro-hop quite a bit, I have a disk just for my home partition that I (almost) never format so that I can keep my files there and move around distros without a worry.
How would you suggest I partition the root/boot/EFI disk for installing your distro? I usually keep a 1GB ext4 boot partition, a 2GB EFI partition and then the rest is a BTRFS partition for root (the disk for home is a single BTRFS partition). I know it sounds like overkill, but that disk is 1TB so I’m not worried about that and like to leave room for any potential storage weirdness.
Would you make any changes to that logic if you were in my shoes?
I was just about to go to bed so apologies for the short answer, I can elaborate tomorrow if you wish. The home folder, including your settings/configs will survive, there’s no difference in the way you organize files to a regular Arch install. The partitioning is preset and non-customizable (for now at least). So no need to worry, you simply install it with the hardcoded presets and use it like you would use your current install! I will likely set up a kind of wiki page to make this more sorted and readable than the current bloated drop-down menu so I can cover this in more detail in the future.
Edit: aah, I overread the first time that you have a home folder that you keep. In your case I would back it up on another drive/cloud first and then try one of the installer options that fit you the most. I should get the option for manual partitioning up and running, but if you don’t do it it exactly like the installer expects, it will fail, which is why I only defined three pre-set options.