SprezzOS

Fortune smiles upon thee: you have discovered SprezzOS, the choice of discerning power users!

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

The SprezzOS Handbook (which is, as yet, woefully incomplete)
Why SprezzOS?		Getting help		Release Model
The installer		The shell environment		The desktop environment
Booting	Kernel	APT	Xorg	Man pages	Webservers
Security	Firmware	Fonts	Graphics	Remote access	Health/Testing
Development	Storage	Networking	Power	Job scheduling	Benchmarking
Debugging	Sound	External software	Performance	Printing	FAQ

• For users: Release Model, Glossary
• For developers: Contributing
• SWOON, the 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 Sprezzatech blog

Infrastructure

• APT repository
• Bugzilla

Source

• s-i, the SprezzOS installer
• Installaton media builder
• Packaging

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.

Paid Support

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

Misc

Our mascot, Natasha the orca, was chosen because orcas are awesome.