NiceOS

Operating system with vanilla Linux kernel for users who wants to take full control of their system. You can do it, try it and make NiceOS your last Linux distribution ever!

Minimal example

You can watch me building minimal preset on YouTube

mkdir -p /data/src/nice # recommend HDD folder with few spare gigs
git clone 'https://github.com/solcloud/NiceOS' /data/src/nice
cd /data/src/nice
$EDITOR .config.sh # read carefully and make modifications inside config.sh
export NICE_PRESET=minimal # presets by default lives inside presets/ folder
make download # download linux and busybox compressed releases
make build
make cmd # or make gui , qemu cmd quit shortcut 'Ctrl-a x'

For more presets look at presets folder, there is base as a starting template and few my personal presets

Promo

Everybody likes screenshots right here is my

Advance example

Building my main desktop system - Ghost with binaries extracted from Artix (Pᗣᗧ•••MᗣN)

You can watch me building ghost preset on YouTube

export NICE_PRESET=ghost
DISTRO=artix DISTRO_ISO=/data/dwn/artix-base-openrc-20220123-x86_64.iso make extract
make build
make gui

For extracting binaries from different distribution just read supported distributions. We virtually provide extract recipes for every linux distro ever made You just need to pick one that suits you best. For example if you prefer devuan binaries over artix just use something like DISTRO=devuan DISTRO_ISO=/path/to/devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_minimal-live.iso make extract instead.

After successful make build you have raw disk image file in storage/sda.img that you can burn to real disk and boot from it or use make gui to run that image in QEMU virtual emulator. If you do not want to use QEMU, you can run make vbox which will convert raw image to virtual disk image file (.vdi), that can be used in VirtualBox for example. Windows video

User's config

For overwriting default config variables you can use git ignored config.sh file at project root, eg:

$ cat config.sh
export QEMU_RAM=3G
export TARGET_GROUP=code
export MAKE_NUM_OF_THREADS=6

User's presets

If you have own presets in different folder than default presets folder, you can use NICE_PRESET_ROOT variable, eg:

export NICE_PRESET_ROOT=/home/me/nice/my_presets
# or use config.sh file
echo 'export NICE_PRESET_ROOT=/home/me/nice/my_presets' >> config.sh

export NICE_PRESET=my_custom_preset
make build

If you publish your presets to GitHub do not forget to use niceos tag on your repository.

Build dependencies

For debian based system you will probably need these packages:

sudo apt install git make gcc rsync bison flex cpio bc libelf-dev gawk fdisk wget lbzip2 xz-utils dosfstools libssl-dev libncurses-dev # required
sudo apt install qemu-system-gui qemu-utils # optional (for running and extracting in QEMU emulator)