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SprezzOS is derived from [http://www.debian.org/ Debian], and an active member of the [http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SprezzOS Debian Derivatives Census]. While SprezzOS is a product of [https://www.sprezzatech.com Sprezzatech], which retains final control over its definition, contributions from the community are actively welcomed. All SprezzOS development is open, and has been from the beginning. SprezzOS at its heart is a rolling, rapdily-evolving operating system using either the Linux or FreeBSD kernel; when the term "SprezzOS" is used by itself, it is this continuum (the "trunk") which is referenced. It is intended that users generally install this trunk, and rely on its frequent updates. From time to time, a snapshot will be taken of the distribution, defining a more static [[Main Page#Release Model|release]].
'''''SprezzOS: Reshaping the Linux ecosystem, one splinter cell at a time.'''''


* [[Installation]]
SprezzOS <b>was</b> (SprezzOS has been inactive since 2014) a Linux distribution dedicated to the lost arts of high performance, robust computing, and freewheeling hackery. Some distros make their mark playing around with desktop theming; we're rewriting core system tools. While they're authoring constitutions and holding votes, we're assaulting the heart of userspace and generating useful patches for upstream.
* [https://www.sprezzatech.com/apt APT repository]


==Release Model==
SprezzOS is derived from [http://www.debian.org/ Debian], and is an active member of the [http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SprezzOS Debian Derivatives Census]. While SprezzOS is a product of [https://www.sprezzatech.com Sprezzatech], which retains final control over its definition, contributions from the community are actively welcomed. All SprezzOS development is open, and has been from the beginning. SprezzOS at its heart is a rolling, rapidly-evolving operating system atop the [[Linux]] kernel; when the term "SprezzOS" is used by itself, it is this continuum (the "trunk") which is referenced. It is intended that users generally install this trunk, and rely on its frequent updates. From time to time, a snapshot will be taken of the distribution, defining a more static [[:CATEGORY: SprezzOS Releases|release]]. New installation media will be released as minor version updates to these releases as the need arises.
At any time, SprezzOS can be uniquely defined by a snapshot at some previous time ''T'', plus an ordered list ''M'' of modifications since that time. The history of SprezzOS can be discretized by these ''M'', yielding a natural sequence ''T<sub>i</sub>''. Certain of these ''T<sub>i</sub>'' will mark the origin of a new branch (and thus a new ''M'' relative to ''T''), a ''release''.


Releases, by reducing the amount of change undergone by the distribution in a given span of time, intend to ease the lives of external developers and system administrators. They are essentially external to the development process itself, and reflect this in their rule-oriented, somewhat arbitrary natures. Each active release has costs in terms of support and maintenance. As releases diverge further and further, those costs tend to increase. Tightly-clustered releases, meanwhile, add diminishing value. A newer release will typically exhibit greater:
Might you be among our [[target audience]]? Good, good.
* hardware support
* software features
* reliability of existing software (bugfixes)
* resource consumption
while ABIs and other interfaces might have changed, at a maintenance cost for end users. Furthermore, a newer release might introduce new bugs, or eliminate necessary functionality. Ideally, every change to SprezzOS would result in a release (this is indeed possible for those building from source). Since releases have cost, however, the number of actively supported releases must be bound. Current development resources suggest that, in addition to trunk, one release (having fairly arbitrarily diverged) can be supported at any given time.


Releases will thus be motivated by:
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* Features added since last release
* Difficulty of adding those features, in isolation, to the last release
* Necessity of lost/broken functionality from older releases
* Time since last release


Successive releases will have successive ''major numbers''. Official branching is only expected to be performed from the SprezzOS trunk. Each ''M'' applied to a release increments the ''minor number''. Whenever an ''M'' results in a new middle number for one of a release's kernels, that increments the ''middle number'' and resets the ''minor number''.
==Documentation==
<div style="float:left; display:inline-block">{{:SprezzOS Handbook}}</div>
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*'''For users:''' [[Release Model]], [[Glossary]]
*'''For developers:''' [[Contributing]]
* SWOON, the [[SprezzOS Weekly News|SprezzOS Weeklyish News]]
** Technically the "''SprezzOS Weeklyish Oblations, Objections, and News''"
* Documentation for [[Installer development]]
* Documentation for [[native tools]]
* "[[SprezzOS and Debian]]" -- an introduction to SprezzOS for Debian developers
* "[[Debian and SprezzOS]]" -- an introduction to Debian for [[sprezzadevs]]
* The [http://www.sprezzatech.com/blog/index.html Sprezzatech blog]
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==Infrastructure==
{|
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| [https://www.sprezzatech.com/apt/swip SWIP], the SprezzOS Web Interface to Packages
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| [https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs Bugzilla]
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| Listing of [[source repositories]]
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| [https://plus.google.com/communities/115626956915136842413 SprezzOS! Google+ community]
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| [[Autobuilder]]
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|}
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==Misc==
* Our mascot, [[mascot|Natasha the orca]], was chosen because orcas are awesome.
* SprezzOS is happily hosted at [http://www.linode.com/ Linode Atlanta].
* Hail Eris!
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Latest revision as of 17:27, 12 October 2020

SprezzOS: Reshaping the Linux ecosystem, one splinter cell at a time.

SprezzOS was (SprezzOS has been inactive since 2014) a Linux distribution dedicated to the lost arts of high performance, robust computing, and freewheeling hackery. Some distros make their mark playing around with desktop theming; we're rewriting core system tools. While they're authoring constitutions and holding votes, we're assaulting the heart of userspace and generating useful patches for upstream.

SprezzOS is derived from Debian, and is an active member of the Debian Derivatives Census. While SprezzOS is a product of Sprezzatech, which retains final control over its definition, contributions from the community are actively welcomed. All SprezzOS development is open, and has been from the beginning. SprezzOS at its heart is a rolling, rapidly-evolving operating system atop the Linux kernel; when the term "SprezzOS" is used by itself, it is this continuum (the "trunk") which is referenced. It is intended that users generally install this trunk, and rely on its frequent updates. From time to time, a snapshot will be taken of the distribution, defining a more static release. New installation media will be released as minor version updates to these releases as the need arises.

Might you be among our target audience? Good, good.

Release (recent) Date (planned/actual) Media Architectures Bug Tags Kernel libc
3 "Kleene" TBD TBD TBD 3.0.0 TBD TBD
2 "Kolmogorov" 2013-08-06 / TBD TBD TBD 2.0.0 TBD TBD
1 "von Neumann" (1.1.1) 2012-12-25 / 2013-01-13 SprezzOS-1.1.1.iso amd64 1.0.0 Linux 3.7.5 GNU libc 2.16
0 "Turing" (0.0.1) 2012-10-05 / 2012-10-08 SprezzOS-0.0.1.iso amd64 0.0.0 and 0.0.0-beta Linux 3.6.0 EGLIBC 2.13

Documentation

Infrastructure

SWIP, the SprezzOS Web Interface to Packages
Bugzilla
Listing of source repositories
SprezzOS! Google+ community
Autobuilder

Mailing Lists

  • The low-traffic sprezzos-announce Google Group features moderated announcements.
    • You are strongly advised to subscribe to sprezzos-announce.
  • The sprezzos-dev Google Group covers development discussion.
    • It also receives copies of all Bugzilla mail.
    • It also receives copies of all commits.
    • This mailing list is quite data-intense.
  • The sprezzos-users Google Group covers all other discussion.

Custom development and SLA-driven support for SprezzOS is available from Sprezzatech, the SprezzOS Project's commercial governing body and primary sponsor.

Misc

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