At the age of 17, Nabeen Tiwaree created his own operating system [Metis Linux]. Nabeen Tiwaree is 17-year-old Nepalese teenager who loves hacking stuffs and is a Linux Youtuber. But most importantly Tiwaree a man of culture.
Metis Linux is a super fast, lightweight, simple, and flexible artix-based distribution. This system uses runit as an init system [no systemD] . Metis Linux uses super tiny scripts to install and manage the entire operating system.
Metis Linux is an Artix Linux-based operating system that began as a hobby project by a 17-year-old Nepalese boy named Nabeen Tiwaree and his friends Yogesh Lamichhane and Safal Piya.
Features of Metis Linux
Metis Linux is system-free, ultra-smooth, ultra-minimalistic, resource-efficient, highly customizable, and performance-driven. Some of the features of Metis linux :
Fast and lightweight:
The suckless’s straightforward packages are used wherever possible. The use of DWM with only the most essential packages results in a super minimalistic operating system that only uses about 250 MBs of memory at boot. This makes the OS extremely productive.
Simple and Free:
If anything can be simple, let’s just simplify it. Metis Linux implementations should be written in shell and C/C++. We appreciate usable and simple package implementations. All of this are freely available on Github.
Systemd-less:
According to the unix philosophy, “Make each program do one thing well” . Systemd includes many features that we never use, complicating the init system. As a result, RunIt is our preferred init system.
POSIX compliant:
We want our project can be easily portable to other operating systems.
Metis Linux ships with following packages by default.
- Text Editor: nvim (Neo-VIM)
- Window Manager: DWM (Dynamic Window Manager)
- Terminal: ST (suckless terminal or simple termimnal)
- Screenshot utility: Scrot
- Bar: SlStatus
- Application Launcher: Dmenu
- brillo: Backlight (brightness) controller
- Pulseaudio: Audio Server for linux (will switch to pipewire on next release)
- JetBrains Mono Nerd Font
- Firefox as default browser
More information is available on the website : https://metislinux.org/
Because it is a free and open source operating system, source code and pull requests for bug fixes and improvements are always welcome at: “https://github.com/metis-os “.
