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<p class="crumbs"><a href="../index.html">home</a> / <a href="../news.html">news</a> / announcing keru</p>
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<h1>Introducing Keru OS</h1>
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<p class="meta" style="font-family:var(--mono);color:var(--ink-dim);font-size:.85rem">2026-09-01 · announcement</p>
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<p>Keru (ける) is a Linux distribution built on a deliberately unusual premise: <strong>the distro holds no opinion about your system.</strong> Not a light opinion, not a sensible default disguised as neutrality — no position at all.</p>
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<p>Most distributions are an answer to "who decides what your system is?" and the answer is usually "the maintainers, wisely." Keru's answer is different: <strong>you decide, at install time, and the distro builds exactly that.</strong></p>
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<h3>What that means concretely</h3>
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<li><strong>Init is a choice.</strong> runit, s6, openrc, systemd, busybox-init, sysvinit, dinit, shepherd — side by side, weightless.</li>
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<li><strong>Your C library is a choice.</strong> glibc, musl, uclibc-ng.</li>
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<li><strong>Your filesystem is a choice.</strong> ext4, btrfs, xfs, zfs, f2fs, jfs, reiserfs.</li>
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<li><strong>Your kernel is a choice.</strong> linux, linux-lts, hardened, cachyos, zen.</li>
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<li><strong>Even sudo is a choice.</strong> doas, sudo, opendoas, or su.</li>
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<p>And it's source-only. The whole system — toolchain included — is compiled from original source by Kama, a package manager that's a ~225-line shell script. There are no binary packages, no opaque machinery, no background assumptions.</p>
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<h3>Why</h3>
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<p>Because "you get s6 and XFS whether you like it or not" is a fine stance for a distro that wants an opinion — but it's a burden for anyone who wants a system that is <em>theirs</em>. Keru's only opinion is that you have to form one. After that, it builds exactly what you chose.</p>
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<p>Read the <a href="../philosophy.html">full philosophy</a>, or follow <a href="../news.html">progress here</a>.</p>
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<div class="callout">Everything is at an early stage. The first installable release, 0.1, will ship as a bootable ISO. Until then: the design is public, the repos are live, and the road is documented.</div>
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