The road to 0.1

The first installable release, 0.1, ships as a bootable ISO. No source builds for the user, no manual tooling — you boot it, the installer starts itself, you choose, and it builds. Here's the honest list of what has to be true before that ISO exists.

The pipeline must actually build

• Toolchain bootstrap on real hardware. binutils → gcc → libc → toolchain, from literal nothing. This is the hard step; source distros live or die here.
• A working base set. base, toolchain, openssh, and the tooling each swappable needs, all building against the chosen libc.
• Every offered combo, proven. The stability promise is "stable on what we offer" — so the offering must be curated to what's tested.

The ISO must boot and install

• live/init works. The ISO boots, mounts virtual filesystems, and hands you the installer with no prompt in the way.
• Network gate works. Connectivity check, nmtui handoff, re-check loop — the hard requirement handled gracefully.
• The installer writes a correct profile. Menus → make.conf → build, with the stability checks warning (never blocking) along the way.
• The installed system boots. First boot runs the init you chose, on the filesystem you chose, with the kernel you chose. Fixed at first boot.

Honesty about the present

Right now the design is public, the repos are live, and this site documents it all — but nothing has booted on hardware yet. The gap between "the architecture is sound" and "0.1 exists" is exactly the work in this roadmap. We're not pretending it's done; we're saying plainly what remains.