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A distribution cut from raw Arch.

Selenite installs a plain, honest Arch Linux base — btrfs by default, no desktop forced on you, and its own installer and package tooling built from scratch.

Get Selenite $ cat /etc/pacman.conf →

Minimal

No bloat, no assumptions

A plain Arch-based base system — no desktop environment forced on you, no preinstalled bloat. Pick a DE afterward, or don't.

$ pacman -Qg base
base  base-devel
linux  linux-firmware
networkmanager  btrfs-progs
sel  gyps  fastfetch
$ █

Solid

btrfs by default

gyps, the installer, lays out @/@home subvolumes on btrfs out of the box, with zram or a swap file if you need one — one guided wizard, or a JSON plan you can script.

$ gyps install --config plan.json
:: partitioning /dev/vda (GPT, UEFI)
:: btrfs subvolumes @ @home
:: pacstrap base linux sel gyps ...
:: swap: zram (4096 MiB)
:: bootloader: limine
:: done — reboot into Selenite

Yours

sel

A pacman + AUR wrapper built from scratch: dependency resolution, batched AUR builds, and a real confirmation before anything touches your system.

mark@selenite~❯ sel -S ttf-fira-code --aur

:: Fetching metadata... 1 package found

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] yes

:: Downloading sources... done

:: Building ttf-fira-code... built

Install 1 package (0.4 MiB)? [Y/n] yes

:: installing ttf-fira-code... done █

Package repo

Both tools are published as real pacman packages — add to /etc/pacman.conf on any Arch-based system:

[selenite]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://repo.getselenite.org/$arch

Unsigned for now — package signing is still on the list.

Get the ISO

The installable ISO isn't published for public download yet — Selenite is still an active, in-progress build. Watch the GitHub org for it.