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<p class="crumbs"><a href="index.html">home</a> / ethos</p>
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<h1>Ethos</h1>
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<p>What the mark stands for.</p>
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<h3>ける · keru keitō-teki</h3>
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<p>Keru is written <strong>ける</strong> in Japanese, and the project's full phrase is <strong>ける・けいとうてき</strong> (keru keitō-teki) — a system assembled the way you want it. The ethos is compact enough to sit behind a name: you don't receive a system, you craft it.</p>
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<p>It's deliberately not a pronouncement. It's a description of the relationship Keru wants with you: you choose, it builds, and it has no agenda beyond honoring that choice.</p>
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<h3>The kiln and the craft</h3>
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<p>The package manager is called <strong>Kama</strong> (窯, "kiln"). The metaphor is warm on purpose — not a cathedral of machinery, but a kiln: you stack your ingredients, fire it, and what comes out is shaped by your hand, not by the kiln's preferences. A kiln doesn't have opinions about the pot. It just fires.</p>
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<h3>Principles guiding the work</h3>
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<li><strong>Source-only.</strong> You run what you built. Every package is compiled from original source.</li>
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<li><strong>Legibility.</strong> Every decision is a script or a line in <code>make.conf</code> you can see and change.</li>
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<li><strong>Simplicity as stability.</strong> Fewer moving parts means fewer things to break — keeping the manager in shell is the point, not a compromise.</li>
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<li><strong>Honesty at the edges.</strong> Unproven combinations get a warning, not a wall. You are never lied to about risk.</li>
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<li><strong>No junk.</strong> No telemetry, no preinstalled opinions masked as defaults, no background assumptions.</li>
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<h3>What Keru is not</h3>
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<li>Not a meta-OS that runs arbitrary kernels — it's a Linux distribution that composes the bits <em>above</em> the kernel however you like.</li>
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<li>Not an opinionless void — it holds one strong opinion: that you should form yours.</li>
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<li>Not a challenge to pick the "right" stack — there is no right stack, there's only your stack.</li>
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<blockquote>企業はあなたの選択の上に成り立つ — the distro stands on your choices.</blockquote>
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<p><a href="about.html">Read about Keru</a> · <a href="philosophy.html">Read the philosophy</a></p>
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