The Vision: A Digital Zen State
Most modern operating systems are bloated. Even "light" distributions often come packed with background services, telemetry, and complex UI kits that eat into your 1GB of RAM before you even open a tab.
What if your OS was nothing more than a window to the web? No desktop icons, no heavy window managers—just a high-performance browser engine that handles your files, your settings, and your life.
- The Challenge: "Ready to Use" in < 5 Seconds To achieve a sub-5-second boot on a 1 GHz processor, we have to strip the traditional boot process to the studs.
- The Kernel: A custom-compiled Linux kernel with all non-essential drivers (printers, Bluetooth stack, legacy ports) removed.
- The Init System: Bypassing traditional heavyweights like systemd in favor of a simplified runit or a custom busybox init script.
- The Interface: No GNOME, no KDE. We launch a "Kiosk Mode" instance of a lightweight engine (like a stripped-down Chromium or a WebKit-based frontend) directly on top of the X server or Wayland compositor.
Hardware Specifications
We aren't targeting high-end gaming rigs. We are targeting the "forgotten" hardware:
- RAM: 1GB (strict ceiling)
- CPU: 1GHz Single-core
- Storage: 16GB (Everything lives in the cloud or via a WASM-based local file manager)
Why Only 6-Month Updates?
The security model of this OS relies on immutability. By keeping the core system read-only and running the browser in a sandboxed environment, we eliminate the need for the "weekly patch" fatigue. Security updates are delivered as a quick binary diff, swapped out in minutes, keeping the system stable and predictable.
Everything is a Web App
- File Management: A local Node.js or Rust-based backend serving a filesystem API to a beautiful React/Vue frontend.
- System Settings: A set of simple JSON hooks exposed via a local web server to toggle Wi-Fi, brightness, and volume.
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