After some deep decision making. I have taken in the feedback, with a twist. Astralixi OS will be as the binary, with app run command and all, on top of pi os lite. With on first boot, an auto-start script of Astralixi OS added into pi os lite, so that once pi os lite boots up, Astralixi OS binary will run straight away.
That script possibly could have a selection system like GRUB (im pretty sure it’s called) where you will be able to choose between Astralixi OS and Pi OS Lite, with Astralixi OS selected by default, and if no selection, in 5 seconds it will auto select Astralixi OS.
It won’t be an operating system. Don’t call it that.
What exactly is your objective? Have you developed applications that you want to integrate? Are they better, and can they do something that others can’t?
Where does this desire to have your own system – whatever it’s supposed to be – come from?
I just want to call it as “OS” because take Cachy OS for an example, it isn’t an OS, it’s just a linux distro.
Yeah; I will have specialised apps for space enthusiasts (and in the future, the space industry), they will all be easily available in Astralixi, with the whole TUI (in the first full version) being space-themed.
My desire to make an OS is complicated. I first learnt how to code 6 years ago with python, since then all my projects haven’t really had a large impact on me, other than Astralixi. I also remember watching some video a few years ago, or reading some article, where people said if you make your own OS, you have complete control, and can tune it exactly how you want it to be.
Leave him alone if you have nothing better to do than correct astrox on the definition of an OS then no need to message. If he wants to try make a distro then let him it will help him learn and it can take a while to have an SD card arrive so i makes sense to ask someone else to test.
You could write a program that can either act as the sole environment on top of Linux (with runtime necessities) or run in a terminal window or Xwayland or whatever, then have an optional init service to start it on boot. Like Kodi.
A Linux distribution is commonly considered an operating system, with variants in software qualifying either as a new distribution or as a new operating system. An operating system is a network of software, whether as a single program or discreet components, running on a computer. A Linux distribution is a set of software packaged to create a system with the Linux kernel as a component. Arguing the semantics in order to gatekeep titles isn’t really productive because the terms are loose by design and are somewhat vestigial of a bygone time in computing before software was commonly, openly, freely traded in the colloquial bazaar we have today. Is GhostBSD a separate OS from FreeBSD? Is OpenBSD a separate OS from NetBSD? Is NetBSD a separate OS from BSD 4.2-Lite? Is BSD a separate OS from UNIX? I think these are all distinct but the lines have been blurry for a long time. Enforcing rigid and arbitrary rules implies obvious falsehoods, like iOS being a “macOS distribution” or Ubuntu, Pop_OS, and SteamOS 2 all being the same operating system.
My plan will be able to have it as a binary, with auto-run on boot, with a selection, with default selected Astralixi OS, with the other option being pi os lite. Astralixi OS will still be called Astralixi OS, even if it isn’t 100% an OS. I feel like it’s more of a locked down user-space, than an OS, but so be it. I probably won’t give any large updates of my progress until the pre-release comes out, so people don’t complain that I don’t have anything to show.
In the future, I could even release a ditribution of Pi OS Lite, with the binary and scripts for auto-start inside of the image, ready for distribution, but let me focus on my current goals.
I would focus on making your program first, get that all up and running inside a normal linux image and then focus on making it an image with the choice
