Bluetail OS
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2026 6:12 pm
Bluetail OS! And CHANIX kernel
Download an image to run on your Raspberry Pi 3 A+ here: https://bluetailos.s3.us-west-2.amazona ... v0.0.1.img
Right now it's live on a qemu on a t4-large on aws live right now with all the ports open https://bluetail.blue/
In theory by tonight there should be a button to download Bluetail FROM bluetail on the link above.
I put together an OS in Rust and Assembly. It boots in QEMU on a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ hardware target... and on a bare metal Raspberry Pi 3 A+! This has no overlap with any preexisting stuff, greenfield project.
Tested hardware support
HDMI out (includes a System 6 inspired GUI)
TP Link UE306 USB ethernet adapter
USB Mouse, Keyboard
High speed USB hub
UART incl shell access
Network
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| Guest port | Service | AWS access |
|---:|---|---|
| 22 | SSH | Open publicly and forwarded to the guest. TCP connects, but SSH login has not yet been verified. |
| 80 | HTTP, including /healthz and /metrics | Open publicly through Caddy. |
| 443 | Bluetail OS HTTPS website | Open publicly through Caddy. |
| 4318 | OpenTelemetry | sure |
| 5709 | slopsrv | sure |
| 8080 | Additional HTTPS service | sure |
| 9000 | RustFS | sure |Code: Select all
| Catalog | Total catalog | Exists | Exists % | Smoke tested | Smoke % |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| libc | 2,598 | 759 | 29.21% | 380 | 14.63% |
| GNU libstdc++ | 3,534 | 68 | 1.92% | 68 | 1.92% |
| LLVM libc++ | 3,534 | 55 | 1.56% | 55 | 1.56% |
| Rust core | 2,120 | 740 | 34.91% | 96 | 4.53% |
| Rust alloc | 357 | 153 | 42.86% | 27 | 7.56% |
| Rust std | 705 | 221 | 31.35% | 221 | 31.35% |
| Go std | 5,313 | 115 | 2.16% | 96 | 1.81% |
| Total | 18,161 | 2,111 | 11.62% | 943 | 5.19% |Code: Select all
C
CPython 3.13.16
curl 8.23.0 / libcurl
FFmpeg / ffprobe 9.0.2
Lua 5.5.1
nginx
OpenSSH client/server/SFTP
PostgreSQL
Upstream Git 2.56.0
zlib / minigzip 1.3.2
C++
aria2
CMake 4.4.4
DuckDB 2.0.0
Exiv2 0.28.9
IniPP 1.0.13 example
JsonCpp 1.9.7 example
MAME
Native GCC and LLVM C/C++ tools
Ninja 1.13.2
qpdf 12.4.2
Rust
base64 0.23.1 CLI
bat 0.26.1
Helix
mdBook 0.5.4
Native Cargo
Native rustc / LLD
OpenAI Codex CLI
pulldown-cmark 0.13.4
ripgrep 15.2.0
Typst 0.15.1
Wasmtime
Golang
Caddy 2.11.7
esbuild 0.28.2
Go hello
gomplate 5.2.0
Helm 4.3.1
kubectl 1.37.1
micro editor
NATS Server
rclone 1.75.2
restic 0.19.1
SOPS 3.13.3
Task 3.54.0