FreeLinX 1.0 – A Linux distro built without GCC or glibc

Updated September 30, 2026 · 12:02 AM · 2 · source date September 29, 2026

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FreeLinX 1.0 – A Linux distro built without GCC or glibc FreeLinX / FreeLinX Public Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 0 Star 1 FreeLinX 1.0.0 Latest Latest Voctl released this 29 Sep 21:01 · 1 commit to main since this release v1.0.0 4623359 FreeLinX 1.0.0 — first release FreeLinX is an independent Linux distribution with a NetBSD userland, the musl C library and an LLVM toolchain. Nothing in the image or the package repository is built by GCC or linked against glibc: every ELF file is checked before an image or a package is published.

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FreeLinX / FreeLinX Public Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 0 Star 1 FreeLinX 1.0.0 Latest Latest Voctl released this 29 Sep 21:01 · 1 commit to main since this release v1.0.0 4623359 FreeLinX 1.0.0 — first release FreeLinX is an independent Linux distribution with a NetBSD userland, the musl C library and an LLVM toolchain.
Nothing in the image or the package repository is built by GCC or linked against glibc: every ELF file is checked before an image or a package is published.
Download: freelinx-1.0.0-x86_64.iso below (BIOS + UEFI, ~500 MB).
Highlights Openbox desktop with a panel (launchers, window list, clock with time zone) and a right-click menu.
OpenGL acceleration on Intel (iris, crocus, i915) and NVIDIA (nouveau); everything else, virtual machines included, gets real KMS modes with CPU rendering.
FreeLinX Web — Firefox ESR 153, built for musl with clang: full JavaScript, H.264/AAC video (FFmpeg, LGPL build), VP9, AV1.

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