Roadmap

Desktop Supercomputer — full regular desktop functionality plus a headless mode for scientific computing, with lossless containers to reproduce other environments and let others reproduce ours.

Current (2026.08 Experimental Stable)

First Experimental Stable released Done

Future releases (from source)

Release path In progress

Next iterations

Pulse — system-level AI assistant Planned

An always-on, system-level AI assistant and runtime (native Rust), working alongside the Zeta coding agent and the skills platform.

Skills — cross-runtime skill platform Planned

A cross-runtime skill distribution platform for research, engineering and execution workflows — system capabilities that can be reused and shared.

Standalone docs site Planned

linxira-wiki: an official docs site covering only Linxira-specific features, complementary to upstream Arch documentation.

First-party tools rolling into the ISO Planned

Gaming manager, kernel manager, completion agent, recovery diagnostics, package center and other initiated tools ship in the ISO over time.

Adopting Linxira onto an existing Arch Planned

Turn a machine that already runs Arch into Linxira from the command line. The pure-Arch baseline already ships with "Server · pure-Arch minimal install"; what is missing is the entry point. We plan to reuse the existing transaction backend (plan → confirm → apply → receipt), probe bootloader, filesystem and desktop conflicts read-only first, and refuse rather than convert halfway. A bootloader change is always a separate confirmation. Read the design note →

Long-term goals (long horizon)

These directions are harder — we study them step by step, with no timetable.

Image slimming Long-term

Image size 4.6G → 2.5-3G (GNOME online-only, Plasma stays offline-installable).

Memory optimization Long-term

ZRAM compressed swap + sysctl tuning (community-verified params).

Pinned runtime versions Long-term

OpenJDK 21 LTS, Node.js and other runtimes pinned and preinstalled.

Recovery mode enhancements Long-term

Graphical restore UI: one-click image restore, boot repair, key repair; recovery environment defaults to KDE fallback desktop.

Self-built performance kernel Long-term

Build from open-source kernels (BORE scheduler + x86-64-v3 optimizations) into our own signed repository.

Tiling window managers Long-term

Niri / Hyprland and other tiling WMs into the software list, installable after KDE setup, switchable at the login screen.

Full multi-desktop selection Long-term

Full multi-desktop selection at install time (KDE / GNOME / more), with desktop environments and tiling window managers managed separately.

Later plans (post-release)

These items are decoupled from the current release schedule. Recorded, not promised.

Server profile package split After one stable year

Move GUI, fonts, audio and browsers out of the headless baseline so server installs are genuinely lean. Requires at least one year of release stability plus profile-aware install validation.

Headless install and VM images Deferred

Reuse the existing ISO for unattended installs via linxira.autoinstall and a config file. VM images and cloud-init variants are deferred so we do not ship a second large artifact.

Welcome system page Planned

Read the system capability manifest and surface Linxira-owned software plus system-specific configuration entry points. It will not duplicate package installation, environment setup or native desktop settings.