NunOS: A soothing Linux distribution

Note: still very much a work in progress!

Plan

• Decide on base distro: debian
  • Good governance model
  • I trust it, I like it
  • I dislike systemd, but Gentoo, OpenBSD, Devuan, etc. seem too niche
• Decide on desktop environment: xfce.
• Describe how to install debian step by step
• Describe how to install the recommended software step by step.
  • With .md.sh scripts
  • Why imperatively? Because nixos has a much higher setup cost for me.
• Recommended hardware
• Potentially build on top of this to SentinelOS
• Install way more software

Previously done for GNOME

• Figure out how to specify shortcuts in the command line: gsettings, or dconf-editor

About

Why a "distribution"

• Not a proper distribution
• A bit more effort than your typical set of dotfiles
• Consider it more like a walkthrough
• But the name "nunOS" (I'm Nuño Sempere) was too good to pass up
• The next step might be to: make this a Debian derivative? But not close to it

userland distribution

Debian installer instructions

Partition > Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM.

How to get this distribution

wget https://git.nunosempere.com/open.source/nunOS/raw/branch/master/1-bootstrap.sh
source bootstrap.sh

Notes to self

• Doing this step by step and testing in between is too annoying. Better to imperatively define it and then test it at the end.