Hey everyone — I’m Kiefer, and I run the Lemmy instance this is posted from (fangnet.me). When I’m not doing that, I’ve been building my own Linux distro, and it’s finally at the point where it boots and installs on real hardware, so here it is: FangOS.
- Base: Arch Linux (rolling release)
- Desktop: KDE Plasma
- Installer: Calamares, fully graphical
- Target: x86_64, UEFI and legacy BIOS
- ISO: ~2.8 GB, with published SHA-256
Links:
- Site: https://os.fangnet.me/
- Source: https://github.com/Kiefer-D-Hendricks/FangOS
- ISO download: https://archive.org/details/fangos-2026.09.14-x86_64
This started as a bucket-list project — “can I actually build an OS?” — and somewhere along the way it turned into a real, installable system. I submitted it to DistroWatch this week, so it’s officially in their queue.
If you give it a spin, I’d love the feedback, especially the critical kind. Bug reports and “this confused me” are the most useful thing a tiny distro can get.
P.S. Yes, this post is brought to you by the same box FangOS was built on — fangnet.me also runs my Nextcloud (FangNet Cloud) and chat (FangNet Chat). One machine, whole ecosystem.
No pictures of it anywhere, the github is a ghost-town (and their profile was created 3 days ago), and absolutely zero information at all for what this does that a default Arch install doesn’t.
Honestly, even this post reads like it is AI generated. Images on the website look straight out of Midjourney. Lemmy instance popped up looks like 1 day ago and is filled with likely AI posts… I would not be surprised if 100% of this is all just outputs from some LLM, the OP’s name included. Like someone’s “agent” is just running amok.
Perfectly on track to become the next Omar cut if a big tech name and some casual racism is thrown in
See also how some AI group is trying to set up astroturf accounts on the Fediverse (and has successfully done so on Bluesky and Xitter):
https://lemmy.world/post/51947593