Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.
In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH’s distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source.
Ikey is abandoning project faster than I change my underwear
I don’t get why this is upvoted. Can we just forget that nightmare that Omarchy is? And ignore attempts to bring it back up? Yes 10 for million you can buy a lot of ads, so we’ll have to tolerate some noise for a while, but it shouldn’t last long.
Barney the distro builder tool sounds interesting. I mean I could just use Archlinux and build my distro this way. Not sure how Barney works, as the repositories need to be supported and then this becomes a distro, not a distro builder tool. I still have to read about this tool to understand. This actually has nothing to do with Omarchy and the popularity of the distro is used to market his own tool in the blog post.
Guys, just use nix, please it’s everything you say you want in a OS…
Go Guix or go home
Since Nix have had some controversy (tldr), I’m just adding the Gnu Guix distro, as an (FOSS) alternative to Nix.
Both are ‘declarative’ systems that are build/configured from a configuration file - amongst other goodness.
In the context of Omarchy, the salient desire is to avoid affiliation with fascists. Which NixOS hasn’t exactly excelled at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NixOS#Community_controversy
(I say this as someone whose main laptop, desktop, and homelab are all NixOS.)
But what I want is to distromog on nixcels!
I remember someone here saying just recently that they used pacstrap on a live nixos system to install arch over it without a usb, which seems like the ultimate way to distromog nixcels
pacstrap on nixos to run an ubuntu based podman container
Which has a windows based VM
Why even mention the nazi distro at all?
It’s worth mentioning something in order to point out why it’s bad? It’s in the news right now and people are currently discussing it, and it’s not like someone is going to read this article and be more likely to go support it
This article is saying that Omarchy isn’t doing anything that novel or special, and that this developer is trying to create a tool that will allow anyone to do the same thing without millions of dollars of funding
Let’s talk about Barney in every Omarchy thead form now on.
Actually, mods, a bot is all we need.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one picked up on this. Just made my comment that it was needless to mention Omarchy.
Nazi vibe coded distro
Nazi vibe coded dot files.
The nazi bar problem I understand, but why is using open source provided by a nazi wrong?
Would you trust to install an operating system, that was provided by actual Nazi Germany? Would you install or recommend ANY distribution you don’t trust to someone else?
what happens when the next update is the one that puts spyware in it and hands it directly to big brother?
One does not simply give them shitters mindshare. Tech is political, never believe otherwise.
I don’t particularly care in the abstract but this particular piece of software is also technically awful vibecoded slop. And DHH isn’t a random nazi, but a nazi with a platform provided by the popularity of his slopware.
