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glaucus

History

  • glaucus started as a personal research project known as “snail” in February, 2018
  • “snail” was succeeded by glaucus in September, 2018 and has been under development ever since

snail

Section titled “snail”
  • An Automated Linux From Scratch distribution with alternatives (PCC, TCC, ELF Tool Chain, elfutils, musl, sbase, ubase, sinit, svc and dash)
  • Had a read-only file system
  • Only bootable under QEMU
  • Lacked a proper service manager
  • Lacked networking support
  • Subpar unix user space
  • Not able to bootstrap
  • Not able to self-host

Design Changes

Section titled “Design Changes”
  • Cross-compiling vs native chroot
  • “/usr” merge
  • Switch to libarchive as the default archive and compression library
  • Switch to LibreSSL as the default TLS library; then to AWS-LC
  • Switch to NetBSD’s Editline Library and curses
  • Switch to toybox as the default unix user space
  • Switch to s6 as the default init system
  • Switch to s6-rc as the default service manager
  • Switch to yash as the default unix shell

First Release

Section titled “First Release”
  • First release was in August 31st, 2019