Project Gemstone

The journey starts here.

What is it?

Project Gemstone is a project to create the next Linux operating system focusing on server, container, and distributed workloads. The project takes a few ideas / features from lots of Linux distributions out there in the wild and reuses them for server applications. Below is a few examples:

• Small footprint - Alpine Linux
• Modules (Group packages) and delta binaries - Intel Clear Linux
• A / B Backups - Container Linux / CoreOS
• CRUX style packaging format - CRUX Linux
• From scratch base - Linux From Scratch / Void Linux / Venom Linux

Stages

Project Gemstone will follow a alternated stages convention from Gentoo Linux in which certain phases of bootstrapping and build the operating system are seperated in stages.

Stage 0: Build a basic GNU Toolchain.

Stage 1: Cross compile a chroot with basic tools. (make, gcc, binutils, etc)

Stage 2: Much like stage 1 however this stage will contain packages to manage supervision and booting. (eudev, util-linux, init system, etc)

Stage 3: Stage contains a generated initramfs and kernel image. This stage will be ready to make a ISO or .img file for booting.

Files in this repo

• Dockerfile - Dockerfile used to build base packages in the quary repository using the prebuilt toolchain which was generated using mktools.
• scripts/docker-build-with-tools - Entrypoint script used by the Dockerfile to build each package in a certain order.