A Bouquet of live systems

Gardenhouse now offers live systems and the tools to convert any florist image into a live system!

After the news about an installer system, Moses Izumi mentioned the possibility of having something Puppy Linux like but wirh Gardenhouse. With Puppy Linux being one of the first Linux Distributions I’ve ever used, I was immediately intrigued by this idea, especially since with the installer system, most groundwork for a ramdisk system was already there.

Now, around 10 days later, I am happy to announce Boquet, Florista, Cedrus and Zaytun! This entire project is named Bouquet, it contains the three profiles Florista, Cedrus and Zaytun. Florista is the ‘loader’ system, it only builds a UKI that bootstraps a full profile to be used as a live system.

Cedrus is a relatively big profile containing an XFCE+labwc desktop, and all kinds of utilities that may be needed for day to day use. The name is derived from the tree Cedrus Libani, as a relatively massive tree which spreads more horizontally than vertically.

Zaytun is a more minimal profile containing a labwc+sfwbar desktop, as well as a smaller set of utilities that are “good enough” for basic computer usage. Zaytun is the arabic word for Olive.

Both of these profiles will have at least monthly Bouquet ISO releases, but pretty much any florist profile can be converted to a live ISO using the iso generation script and Florista!

The Bouquet ISOs support ramdisk and persistent home boots in addition to a regular storage-based boot. That way the system is not tied to possibly slow storage, but can run fully from RAM. Or act as a portable desktop system using the persistent home feature.

References

Bouquet Repository: git.pinkro.se codeberg