Bedrock Linux
Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to
mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions.
Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
For example, one could have:
- Debian's stable coreutils
- Arch's cutting edge kernel
- Void's runit init system
- A pdf reader with custom patches automatically maintained by Gentoo's portage
- A font from Arch's AUR
- Games running against Ubuntu's libraries
- Business software running against CentOS's libraries
All at the same time and working together mostly as though they were packaged
for the same distribution.
Bedrock Linux 0.8 Naga development started
2020-10-20
Development effort has shifted from improving 0.7 Poki toward a new major
release, 0.8 Naga. Poki will continue to be maintain with small bug fixes and
brl fetch updates. However, new features are unlikely or broad compatibility
improvements are unlikely until Naga's release.
Naga's tentative design plans can be found here.
Bedrock Linux 0.7.19 released
2020-11-10
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Add more global /etc items
- Fix brl-fetch localegen logic issue in some situations
- Improve brl-fetch
/etc/ssl handling (fixes brl fetch arch for some users)
- Improve non-local cwd handling in brl code
Bedrock Linux 0.7.18 released
2020-10-20
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Added automatic restriction of CRUX's prt-get, pkgmk
- Added code to load modules on init to help with keyboard detection
- Added crossfs support for wayland-sessions
- Added envvar crossfs settings
- Added more setfattr hijack sanity checks
- Added pmm support for dnf short aliases
- Added retention of BEDROCK_RESTRICTION across sudo call
- Added themes, backgrounds to crossfs defaults
- Fixed /bedrock/cross/bin/X11 self-reference loop
- Fixed brl fetch --list tab completion comment
- Fixed brl priority color handling when brl colors are disabled
- Fixed brl-fetch Alpine
- Fixed brl-fetch Fedora
- Fixed brl-fetch Gentoo
- Fixed brl-fetch KISS
- Fixed brl-fetch centos
- Fixed brl-fetch devuan detection of stable release
- Fixed brl-fetch manjaro
- Fixed brl-strat completion
- Fixed detection of package manager user interface at hijack
- Fixed fish envvar handling
- Fixed overwriting system and user-set PATH entries
- Fixed pmm creation of redundant items when superseding
- Fixed pmm support for pacman,yay search-for-package-by-name
- Fixed pmm support for portage which-packages-provide-file
- Fixed pmm using supersede logic when unneeded
- Fixed portage is-file-db-available noise
- Fixed restriction of XDGDATADIRS
- Fixed zprofile restriction check
- Improved brl-fetch handling of different ssl standards
- Improved brl-fetch locale-gen failure handling
- Improved brl-fetch void to use smaller base-minimal
- Improved crossfs multithread performance if openat2 available (Linux 5.6 and up)
- Improved env-var handling
- Improved etcfs debug output
- Improved plymouth handling
Bedrock Linux 0.7.17 released
2020-04-30
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Fix sudoers injection return value
Bedrock Linux 0.7.16 released
2020-04-29
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Add cross-stratum /etc/crypttab support
- Add cross-stratum /etc/profile.d/*.sh support
- Add cross-stratum dkms support
- Fix brl-fetch fedora, void, void-musl
- Improve brl-fetch error messages
- Improve pmm pacman/yay handling to only supersede identical commands
- Restrict kiss package manager
Bedrock Linux 0.7.15 released
2020-04-16
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Add pmm to brl-tutorial
- Fix brl-tutorial typo
- Fix pmm apt no-cache package availability check
Bedrock Linux 0.7.14 released
2020-04-14
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Add ppc and ppc64 support
- Add Package Manager Manager ("pmm")
- Add code to recover from bad bedrock.conf timezone values
- Add sanity check against GRUB+BTRFS/ZFS issue
- Fix Path and TryExec handling in crossfs ini filter
- Fix brl-fetch centos, kiss, void, void-musl, and debian sid
Bedrock Linux 0.7.13 released
2020-01-06
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Fixed brl-fetch arch
- Fixed brl-fetch kiss
Bedrock Linux 0.7.12 released
2019-12-16
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Fixed brl-fetch artix
- Fixed bash completion for brl-tutorial
Bedrock Linux 0.7.11 released
2019-12-14
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Added brl-tutorial command
- Added basics tutorial
- Added brl-fetch tutorial
- Added brl-fetch support for Fedora 31
- Added brl-fetch support for Manjaro
- Fixed brl-fetch debug handling
- Fixed brl-disable handling of invalid stratum
Bedrock Linux 0.7.10 released
2019-10-21
A point update has been released for 0.7. To update to it, run brl update as root.
- Add Artix fetch support
- Add brl-fetch CentOS support for CentOS 8 and 8-stream
- Fix brl-fetch debian, devuan, raspbian and ubuntu libapt-pkg.so warning
- Fix ubuntu default release detection considering "devel" a release
- Improve hijack warning to better explain what it will do
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