Good question. The whole thing is built and managed as a bootc/OCI image on CI, and I documented every step (Containerfile, the kernel build and signing, the curated deltas, the build/test/release flow) in the handbook: https://margine.the-empty.place/handbook

Full source is on GitHub too: https://github.com/daniel-g-carrasco/margine-image

Yeah, unfortunate timing. There was a brief power outage in my area due to the extreme heat, so my little server in my house hosting the site was down for a couple of hours. It’s back online now. Sorry about that!

I understand why it might look suspicious. I created this account mainly to share Margine, since I’ve never really used social platforms to talk about my projects before. That’s why the profile is so new and empty. I’m a real person, though. English isn’t my first language, and I sometimes use AI to polish my wording, which probably explains some of the LLM vibes.

It’s not the GNOME desktop that makes it “fast”; it’s the CachyOS kernel, which is at the core of this project. GNOME was chosen to provide a complete and stable desktop environment.

Well, you can call it a custom image if you feel “downstream image” isn’t the right term, but Margine is a downstream image in the same way that Bluefin and Bazzite are. Of course, I’m not claiming to have created a new Linux distribution from scratch.