MocaccinoOS uses Luet as a package manager, which is completely static and fully based on containers. It comes in two variants:
- Mocaccino Micro: Musl-based Linux From Scratch using only Luet. Suited for cloud and containers, but more to come as a Desktop flavor.
- Mocaccino Desktop: Gentoo-based (former Sabayon branch) suited for Desktop environments.
MocaccinoOS uses a layered approach for system and common packages: smoother upgrades so you can focus on the things that really matter.
Features include:
- Focused on minimalism, small footprint, and ease of use.
- Native vanilla upstream kernel: We closely follow kernel versions from upstream, LTS included.
- Unique approach to package management: SAT-solving is also applied on packages built in containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Meta distribution: It can be easily used to bootstrap other OS or spin-offs.
- Local iteration: With the container ecosystem, it’s easy to iterate development locally.
- Cloud first: Support for the most important cloud technology in the landscape.
- Different variants: From server to desktop, from systemd to runit.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, Xfce |
| Init Software: | systemd and others |
| Package Management: | Luet |
| Release Model: | Rolling |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.mocaccino.org |
| Developer: | MocaccinoOS |
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