Credits

Who

Keru is the work of Astral (@AstralZX), who maintains all three repositories and this site. It grew out of earlier experiments (the lineage runs TOML packages → a 50-line build DSL → plain shell, and from opinionated dogmas to the anti-opinionated stance).

The tradition Keru sits in

• Gentoo — source-based purity and the profile concept that Keru carries forward.
• Nix — declarative, reproducible composition of a system from pieces.
• Bedrock Linux — the "meta-distribution" idea: a distro about choice and composition.
• OpenBSD & doas — the minimalism that Keru's default privilege tool comes from.
• The skarnet suite (s6) — clean service supervision, an option among equals here.

The free software underneath

A source-only distribution is downstream of everyone who makes the sources it builds: the Linux kernel, GCC/binutils, the libcs, busybox, the init systems, the filesystem tools, and every project with a recipe in kama-packages. Credit belongs to all of them, and their licenses — not Keru's — govern those components. Keru's AGPL covers Keru's own code (see the license page).

This website

• Fonts: Inter and JetBrains Mono.
• Built: hand-written HTML/CSS/JS, no framework — consistent with the project's spine.