Praxis V1.5

Release Notes
Praxis v1.5

Praxis is a shell first Linux distro. It boots to a raw shell. The install is manual and explicit. The tooling is readable. You own the stack.

Bedrock is the first release.

What's included
Live environment

Boots directly to a shell no menu, no prompt, no guidance
Praxis owned kernel (kernel/bzImage) and static BusyBox userspace
Full live toolkit: praxis-status, preflight, praxis-disk-report, praxis-netcheck, praxis-support, praxis-fetch
Local documentation inside the image at /usr/share/doc/praxis
Install chain
Five explicit stages, each gated on the previous:

praxis-install --hostname deploy rootfs
Write /etc/fstab yourself from blkid output
mkinitrd build initramfs and copy kernel
praxis-chroot configure inside the target
Write boot entries yourself, then targetcheck to verify
No step is automated beyond what it strictly has to do.

Desktop profiles
Optional desktop installs via praxis-packages: XFCE, Plasma, GNOME, MATE, LXQt, i3, Openbox, Budgie. Budgie runs a Wayland session via labwc. All others use X11.

Package bundles
essentials, internet, developer, media, fonts

QEMU workflows

make qemu boot the live ISO
make qemu-install install test loop with writable disk
make qemu-installed boot the installed disk with UEFI
make qemu-full- staged desktop target, boots immediately
make smoke headless boot, verifies shell prompt.

HEY!

I have not had much time to test Praxis OS v1.5. I only test some stuff, IF YOU FIND AN ISSUE PLEASE REPORT IT.