#install Iglunix

[iglunix-official]

I’m officially connected to the Iglunix project. If you need some help with installing it, have this guide:

0. Boot an iso that isn’t @voidlinux and install xbps-static. This is important because Iglunix doesn’t currently have an iso.

1. Make two partitions on an empty drive. If using (G)Parted/KDE Partition Manager, using they should be a fat32 partition named IGLU_BOOT and an ext4 partition named IGLU_ROOT, if not, use fdisk to create the two partitions and mkfs to format them.

2. Make directory as root:

3: Mount IGLU_ROOT to /mnt/new-root

4: make a boot directory: /mnt/new-root/boot

5: mount IGLU_BOOT to /mnt/new-root/boot

6: xbps-install -r/path/to/mountpoint -SyfRhttps://mirror.iglunix.org/ (all .xbps files listed in the repo)

7: download this script and run it as root: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anoraktrend/Iglu-install/main/postinstall

8: reboot, removing the iso. when dhcpcd is done running, hit enter and edit /etc/inittab to make it more secure: replace the ask firsts with respawn and change /bin/sh to /bin/sgetty 0 tty(match the tty at the beginning of the stanza) and add at least two more lines like tty1 with numbers

9: reboot one more time, and login as root. Congrats you have working Iglunix install, git clone https://github.com/iglunix/iglunix to wherever you want to keep your source code directories and optionally clone https://github.com/anoraktrend/frankensrc. Build packages with iglupkg, install using iglu add out/*.xbps.

If you want to contribute to this project, try making pull requests to Frankensrc first (I am more likely to make merges than Ella is, just based on freetime) and Iglunix second, (all Frankensrc build.shs are dual licensed as Berkeley Artistic and bsd0 to be upsourced to Iglunix).

Here be dragons: The Iglunix project does not officially support installing Iglunix at the moment. It’s not complete and many parts of it are not currently working. I can help you if you have issues installing the system if you need it, send an ask if you have trouble! My recommendation is to use a Chimera Linux iso for step zero. (You will need to run doas apk add chimera-repo-contrib chimera-repo-user to be able to install gparted).

[iglunix-official]

I use Iglunix, btw, because it's not GNU/ or even GNU+ Linux. it's an independent, designed-to-be-portable userspace that's currently focusing on using the most widely used kernel in existence, Linux. It's goal is to work in harmony using all free software… specifically excluding software made by GNU. This is not to say GNU+ or /Linux is bad, by any means, but more to say that it's incorrect to for one to assume that if someone says that they use Linux, that they mean they use gnu+ or / or whatever Linux. (We’re down to just gmake for the main install!)

"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux." The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.