Lunar Linux

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Lunar Linux is a Linux distribution.

It installs a complete bootstrap development system first. After telling the Lunar package manager which software will be required, it builds the entire system by downloading current source code and locally compiling an optimized system tailored toward the users specific needs. This should result in a lean and optimized operating system. On the downside, compiling a whole distribution from scratch may be time-consuming and complicate the task of keeping the packages up to date.

Currently, Lunar supports the x86 and x86 64 architecture, but has been implemented by users on sparc64 and ppc. No install support is planned for non-x86* architectures at the moment.

Lunar Linux was forked from Sorcerer by a small team of people lead by Chuck Mead; another distribution derived from Sorcerer Linux is Source Mage GNU/Linux. The distribution leadership for Lunar Linux was handed over to Auke Kok on April 22, 2004.