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Layover Linux is my hobby project, where I'm building a packaging ecosystem from first principles and making a distro out of it. It's going slow thanks to a full time job (and... other reasons), but the design is solid, so I suppose if I plug away at this long enough, I'll eventually have something I can dogfood in my own life, for everything from gaming to web services to low-power "Linux but no package manager" devices.
Layover is the package manager at the heart of Layover Linux. It's designed around hermetic builds, atomically replacing the running system, cross compilation, and swearing at the Rust compiler. It's happy to run entirely in single-user mode on other distros, and is based around configuration, not mutation.
We all deserve reproducible builds. We all deserve configuration-based operating systems. We all deserve the simple safety of atomic updates. And gosh darn it, we deserve those things to be easy. I'm making the OS that I want to use, and I hope you'll want to use it too.









