AliveOS

Let me tell you how modern media downloading actually works in 2026. It is not HTTP GET video.mp4, thank you, goodbye. It is an arms race.

Let me tell you a story about the fastest computer most people own, and how they never get to actually use it as one.

Six weeks ago, we wrote about Dory as the cornerstone of AliveOS — a standalone file chooser portal backend forked from Nemo, purpose-built for sandboxed application integration. Today we are retiring it. Not because it failed, but because it succeeded...

This is a technical deep-dive into nouveau-fermi-reclock-dkms, an out-of-tree DKMS kernel module that adds bidirectional DDR3 memory reclocking, GPU core/shader reclocking, and a dynamic frequency governor for NVIDIA Fermi GPUs (GF100–GF119). It is also a story about how many things...

Let me tell you a story about enthusiasm, skepticism, and getting banned from a Telegram channel for the crime of mentioning AI. But first, let us talk about Xlibre and why I am not entirely convinced it is the promised...

Let me tell you how open-source desktop politics actually works in the real world. Not in theory. In practice, on your machine, when something is broken.

Let us address the elephant in the room: AliveOS was supposed to ship v0.1 in Q3 2026. That is not happening. The new target is early Q1 2027, and before you close this tab in disgust, let me explain why...

The Incident

The Spark That Started AliveOS

Why We Built xconnect

We are reaching out to the community for collaboration on an important initiative: the creation and maintenance of a Cinnamon desktop fork whose primary goal is to preserve long-term X11/Xlibre compatibility, ensure fast integration of critical fixes and new features,...

Small but nice update: you can now leave comments on blog posts.

It has been a while since the last update. Not because the project is dead. Far from it. But because life happened, as it tends to do, especially in summer. Let me explain.

There is a particular stage in any project where you are not quite building the thing yet, but you are definitely doing things. The pieces are scattered across the table, some of them work, some of them are held together...

A fair question we hear often: if a power user already knows how to customize an Arch install, why build a developer-focused distro at all? It is a good challenge. Let us have a go at it.

Every distribution has an origin story. Most are boring. “We wanted a simpler Linux” they say, and then ship forty gigabytes of snaps. AliveOS’s story is not that. AliveOS begins not with a grand vision, but with a single annoying...

Choosing a default browser for AliveOS was not a decision we took lightly. Developers spend a significant portion of their day in the browser, and our goal was to ship something that respects both your productivity and your privacy. After...

We have been quiet on one question that comes up a lot: where does AliveOS stand on AI? The short version is simple.

A couple of days on from our welcome post, and things are moving. Here is a quick look at what has come together since launch and what is currently in flight.

Welcome to the official home of AliveOS — a minimalist, Arch-based, developer-optimized Linux distribution. This is our first news post, so here is a quick rundown of what we are building and what to expect in the lead-up to the...