Conjlinux: the CONsole Junkie Linux distribution

About

Conjlinux is a smallish binary distribution with focus on:

• besides the optional X support, ensure proper console operation
• keep software bloat and unnecessary dependencies low: no systemd, can install minimal system without perl or python
• targeting *NIX experts who want to install by manually partitioning disks and creating file systems from a shell

Keeping software bloat under control is possible only with certain compromises:

• conjlinux speaks English; wherever possible i18n is disabled or patched out
• there is no fancy desktop on X, just Xorg and a window manager
• some large and hopelessly obese software are simply not packaged (e.g. openoffice); these can be run using a different distro within qemu
• no multiarch support (so if you install x86_64 binaries, you won't get libraries and executables for i386 even tho your CPU and kernel would be able to use them)
• no support for selinux

Current state

[2024-06] Early stage, not easily testable yet. Conjbootstrap works, can produce usable chroots, already boots in qemu and on real hardware. Packages are not self-hosted yet, they are built on Devuan. The only arch supported at the moment is x86_64.

More for users

• Download and install: (not yet)
• motivation: why a new distribution?
• how is it possible to sustain the distribution on the long run
• explanation of conj-lint error codes

More for packagers and developers

See the developer doc and the TODO .

Contact

Chat (IRC) or email. There's no mailing list or web based bugtracker.