To Control your System
Free
To Control your System
Free
Based on Arch Linux, Obarun provides not only a reliable alternative but a service management experience like no other, tailored to give professionals total control.
Obarun’s repositories maintain compatibility with Arch Linux while adding tools for service management, package building, and system installation.
While tailored for experienced users, the Obarun community is supportive and open to those willing to explore a different approach to Linux.
Obarun's tools are developed internally with a focus on professionalism, ensuring seamless integration and reliability. This approach guarantees transparency, stability, and alignment with the system's core philosophy.
All packages are built transparently, with build logs available for review, and automatically added to the repositories. This process ensures that the latest updates are always available.
The Obarun community consists of Linux users who prioritize transparency, control, and simplicity. Collaboration and open idea exchange are key. Participation in discussions and forums is encouraged for all users.
Service files are written in an INI format, making them straightforward to read and edit.
Easily create scandir directories for both the root and regular users, allowing for efficient service management across different user levels.
Regular users have their own independent scandir directories, separate from the root, ensuring user-specific supervision without interference.
Supports instantiated service.
Automatically creates dedicated loggers for each service, covering both classic and oneshot service types.
Automatically handles and maintains service dependencies, ensuring smooth and reliable service operations.
Supports specific identifiers that are replaced at parse time to simplify service file creation.
Allows the creation and management of snapshots of your service system, enabling easy backup, recovery, and sharing of service states across multiple hosts.
Ensures services are fully ready before managing their dependency chains, using a readiness notification mechanism.
66 can supervise services independently of the boot process, making it optional to use 66 from startup. It is also fully compatible with virtualization platforms like containerd, Podman, and Docker, allowing for easy monitoring of services within containers.
Logs are stored in a human-readable format for easier analysis and debugging.
Utilizes file descriptor holding for efficient log piping, enhancing reliability and performance.
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Obarun ISOs are now built automatically every month Dear Obarun Community, Obarun install images are no longer built by hand. A GitLab pipeline now builds them on its own, on the first day of every month, and publishes them without anyone having to press a button. The download page always …
obinstall — the new Obarun installer Dear Obarun Community, Obarun has a new installer. It is called obinstall, it is available in [obextra], and it replaces the historical obarun-install and its companion obarun-install-themes. It offers two ways to install the system: a graphical wizard that runs in a browser, and …
Upgrading to 66 0.9.1.0 Dear Obarun Community, The new release of 66 is available in the Obarun testing repositories. This post is not a description of what changed inside 66, the changelog already does that. It tells you what you have to do to bring an existing system to 0.9.1.0, …
