VioletiumOS v0.1.5

🌱 VioletiumOS Seedling 0.1.5

Seedling 0.1.5 is a polish-focused release of VioletiumOS.

What's New

🌸 Blossom

• Added the Blossom Fluxbox theme.
• Added the Blossom wallpaper.
• Blossom is now the default VioletiumOS Fluxbox appearance.

🖥️ Desktop

• Improved Fluxbox configuration and startup.
• Added additional input and desktop utilities.
• Improved desktop integration.

🌐 Browser & MIME

• Added Lynx to the normal VioletiumOS installation.
• Lynx is no longer installed only in the live environment.
• Updated MIME/browser package handling for Debian Trixie.

📦 Build System

• Updated VioletiumOS version references to 0.1.5.
• Updated release documentation.
• AMD64 test build completed successfully.

⚠️ Known Bugs

• The Blossom wallpaper may appear gray instead of displaying its intended colors.

Build Status

• AMD64: Available
• Other architectures: Not currently released

Status

VioletiumOS Seedling 0.1.5 is a pre-alpha release intended for testing and development.

VioletiumOS v0.1.4

Sorry, This version Is too big to upload or serve.
Starting from v0.1.5, We will Split VioletiumOS and the live boot demo software.

sorry :(

now this makes those beta versions unavailable :( ::
v0.1
v0.1.1
v0.1.4

try building them yourself

VioletiumOS v0.1.3

🌱 VioletiumOS Seedling 0.1.3

Seedling 0.1.3 is a usability-focused release that brings VioletiumOS closer to being a complete desktop experience while keeping its lightweight Debian base.

What's New

Desktop & Fluxbox

• Added Settings to the right-click menu.
• Added a dedicated Volume menu with volume up, volume down, and mute controls.
• Added keyboard media-key support.
• Added desktop Home launcher integration.
• Improved the Applications menu organization.

Applications

• Shells
• Utilities
• Installed Apps
• My Apps

Audio

Added a more complete out-of-the-box audio stack including PipeWire, WirePlumber, ALSA support, Bluetooth audio support, Pavucontrol, and related utilities.

Build System

• Improved architecture-specific kernel handling.
• Fixed kernel-flavour issues between architectures.
• Improved architecture selection.
• Added package validation and missing-package handling.

Build Status

• AMD64: Available
• Other architectures: Unavailable — temporary build problems

The AMD64 ISO is currently the only build being released while the remaining architecture builds are being worked on.

⚠️ Known Bugs

• Desktop icons may not appear.
• The Themes menu may disappear from Fluxbox configuration.
• Utilities may appear empty.

Status

VioletiumOS Seedling 0.1.3 is a pre-alpha release intended for testing and development.

VioletiumOS v0.1.2

VioletiumOS 0.1.2 — Seedling 🌱

The first release of VioletiumOS with the core desktop environment and system configuration in place.

What's included

• Fluxbox desktop environment
• Xorg display server
• LightDM login manager
• NetworkManager + NetworkManager applet
• PipeWire + WirePlumber audio stack
• Bluetooth support
• Power management with UPower
• ZRAM via systemd-zram-generator
• Polkit support
• PCManFM file manager
• Rofi application launcher
• Nitrogen wallpaper manager
• Picom compositor
• Screenshot tools (maim + slop)
• cbatticon battery indicator
• VioletiumOS branding and violetium-info
• VioletiumOS default Fluxbox configuration/theme
• Debian Trixie base
• systemd init system

Architectures

• amd64
• Other architectures will be available soon.

Notes

VioletiumOS is currently pre-alpha. Some components are still being refined and additional functionality is planned for future releases.

Known limitations

• Audio hardware was not available in the QEMU test environment.
• Some ZRAM management utilities are not included yet.
• More polish, branding, and system utilities are planned for 0.1.3.

VioletiumOS 0.1.2 — Seedling 🌱

VioletiumOS v0.1.1

This Is the First version of VioletiumOS to be built.
Unfortunately, no ISO was archived.

VioletiumOS v0.1

The first public version.