DarkOS is out now!

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Windows10User
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DarkOS is out now!

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DarkOS is a non-Linux OS made from scratch, there is ABSOLUTELY NO LINUX KERNEL, NO BUSYBOX OR ANY BSD KERNELS. This runs KDE Plasma 6.7 with Wayland with OpenRC, and works on real hardware (non-CSM/CSM, BIOS/UEFI), and qemu. Sadly, it doesn’t work in VirtualBox and VMware (VMware isn’t tested yet, but I don’t know if it actually works or not, if someone could test it for me, share the results for me.) It’s installable, but the installation script doesn’t use Calamares (or any GUI Installers) to keep the iso lightweight. The installation script will detect which drive to install to, however, sometimes it needs you to type the correct drive, since sometimes it couldn’t detect perfectly. It has a initramfs, rootfs and a package manager (backed by Alpines repositories). It has some bugs but report them here if you caught one.
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Download DarkOS in https://github.com/windowsuser688/DarkOS.

Edit: Found Linux kernel but i’m no longer maintaining it anymore. Thank you to anyone who used DarkOS. The real claim that it doesn’t use busybox, it uses a custom shell made by myself.
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Re: DarkOS is out now!

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Windows10User wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 8:14 pmABSOLUTELY NO LINUX KERNEL
You are, in fact, using a Linux kernel.
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Re: DarkOS is out now!

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Octocontrabass wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 9:14 pm
Windows10User wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 8:14 pmABSOLUTELY NO LINUX KERNEL
Found it! Removing it later.
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Re: DarkOS is out now!

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Moving this to General Programming as it is quite clearly a distribution of Alpine and not an independent OS project.
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