Veilbox v3

Veilbox v3 — rebuilt from the ground up on Fedora, with every component understood and maintained manually.

Veilbox 2.0.1

Veilbox 2.0 — First public release

A container-native Debian-based live OS with the Niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor and Noctalia shell.

What's Included

• Desktop: Niri compositor + Noctalia shell + Mako notifications + Fuzzel launcher
• Terminals: Foot (Wayland) + XTerm (fallback)
• Container Runtime: Docker CE + containerd
• DevOps Toolchain: kubectl, Helm, Terraform, k9s, stern, kind, minikube, AWS CLI, Azure CLI, GitHub CLI, dive, trivy, yq
• Installer: Calamares graphical installer for permanent installation
• Audio: PipeWire + WirePlumber + ALSA compatibility
• Hardware Support: Full Debian desktop kernel (AMD/Intel/NVIDIA), firmware, WiFi, Bluetooth

Key Features

• Auto-login directly to the desktop on boot
• Serial console on ttyS0 for headless debugging
• Robust session recovery — watchdog restores text console on compositor crash
• Passwordless sudo for the live user

Quick Start

1. Write to USB: dd if=veilbox-2.0-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress
2. Boot from USB (UEFI recommended)
3. Desktop auto-starts — user: veilbox, password: veilbox
4. Run pkexec calamares -d to install permanently