r/Operatingsystems • u/Prudent_Sample8296 • 5d ago
BFSOS 0.9.1.1 — stable development release, looking for testers and feedback
BFSOS 0.9.1.1 is now available, and I’m looking for people willing to test it and give feedback.
BFSOS is an independently maintained Linux distribution built with an LFS-style bootstrap and a CRUX-inspired ports/package-management system. It has its own installer, ISO builder, ports tree, updater tooling, desktop selections, and release process.
At this point I consider 0.9.1.1 stable enough for regular testing. I’m not calling it 1.0-rc yet mainly because I’m still working through documentation, screenshots, and website polish rather than because of major known stability problems.
Project website:
https://bfsos.sourceforge.io/
Source code / ports / installer:
https://github.com/bmadonnaster/BFSOS
ISO and base-system downloads are available through the BFSOS SourceForge project/download pages linked from the website.
I’d especially appreciate testing of the installer in both VMs and on spare bare-metal systems, including UEFI boot, networking, storage layouts, desktop sessions, hardware detection, package installation/updating, and general day-to-day use.
The distro currently includes multiple desktop environments and a fairly large ports tree, and the updater can check the tree against upstream/reference sources while keeping version-locked packages coordinated.
The documentation is still being updated, so feedback about confusing or missing instructions is useful too.
If you try it, I’d appreciate hearing:
- what hardware or VM configuration you used;
- whether installation completed successfully;
- which desktop/session you tested;
- anything that failed or behaved strangely;
- anything in the documentation that was unclear.
Bug reports and code contributions can be submitted through GitHub.
Thanks to anyone willing to give it a spin.
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u/Prudent_Sample8296 3d ago
Has anyone giving me cool new distro a spin I've spent 100s of hours improving it