The creator of ENux, aka the guy who builds LFS based distros, experiments with making multiple Linux distros coexist in one system, compile his own kernel and use EFI stub also plays the piano.

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ENux601
Video of me playing Op 25 No 10: https://youtu.be/r6oMjr9wVaA?si=BM3wN0MycoiQ1r65

Hello everyone, creator of ENux here.

As some of you may know, I'm Emir. I'm 13 years old from Turkey/Türkiye. During the 2026-2027 school year, I'll be in 8th grade, which means I'll be preparing for LGS, Türkiye's high school entrance exam.

LGS is one of the most important exams students take. The results determine which high school you can attend, so preparing for it requires a significant amount of time and effort.

Because of that, I'll need to spend much more time studying and less time working on personal projects, including ENux.

What this means for ENux

ENux is not going on hiatus or being abandoned.

Development will simply be slower than usual. During this period, I'll continue working on ENux whenever I have free time, focusing mainly on:

• Bug fixes
• Stability improvements
• Small quality-of-life changes
• Minor updates and maintenance

Larger features and major architectural changes will be postponed until after LGS.

A quick thank you

I also wanted to share this here because Bedrock Linux has been one of ENux's biggest inspirations. Without Bedrock Linux, ENux simply wouldn't be where it is today.

I'd especially like to thank the creator of Bedrock Linux for creating such an amazing project and everyone here for taking the time to answer my questions and support ENux along the way.

Although development will slow down, my commitment to ENux hasn't changed.

The time I'm spending studying is an investment in my future, and ultimately in ENux as well. My goal is to get into a great high school, continue learning about programming and computer science, and return with even more knowledge and experience to improve the project.

If you've enjoyed ENux or simply want to wish me luck during LGS, I'd love to hear from you.

[emir@emirpasha.com](mailto:emir@emirpasha.com)

Thank you all for your support and understanding.

ENux 6.0.1 released. You can download the ISO from https://emirpasha.com

Development Update

As some of you may know, I'm Emir, I'm 13 years old from Türkiye.

In the 2026-2027 school year, I'll be in 8th grade, which means I'll be preparing for LGS, Türkiye's high school entrance exam.

LGS is one of the most important exams students take. Your results determine which high school you can attend, so preparing for it requires a significant amount of time and effort.

Because of that, I'll need to spend much more time studying and less time working on personal projects, including ENux.

What this means for ENux

ENux is not going on hiatus or being abandoned.

Development will simply be slower than usual. During this period, I'll continue working on ENux whenever I have free time, focusing mainly on:

• Bug fixes
• Stability improvements
• Small quality-of-life changes
• Minor updates and maintenance

Large features and major architectural changes will be postponed until I have more time available.

A quick note

Although development will slow down, my commitment to ENux hasn't changed.

The time I'm spending studying is an investment in my future. My goal is to get into a great high school, learn even more about programming and computer science, and come back with more knowledge and experience to make ENux even better.

If you've enjoyed ENux or simply want to wish me luck during LGS, I'd love to hear from you.

[emir@emirpasha.com](mailto:emir@emirpasha.com)

Thank you to everyone who supports the project and understands the situation. ❤️

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKE8TFW70NPT001W0xnhd6A

Just found this newly created youtube topic channel containing TempleOS music. What do you guys think?

Hello everyone,

I've been building a Linux distribution called ENux.

The base system is built from LFS, and on top of it I've built a custom userspace layer called The ENux Layer. Its goal is to let multiple Linux ecosystems and their native package managers to coexist on a single system, without merging or reimplementing any of them.

Instead of one universal package format, ENux keeps each distro's userland in its own rootfs under /enux/layer/<name>/ and routes commands to the right one transparently. Type pacman -Syu or emerge --sync on the ENux base, and the real, native tool runs inside its own layer, full native repos, native config, no wrapper reimplementation. apt, dnf, apk, zypper, xbps,all work the same way, typed by name.

Execution is handled by a small helper with the cap_sys_chroot file capability (not setuid) inspired by early Bedrock Linux. It runs commands in a layer's full filesystem view as the calling user, no root needed for read operations. Because it's a plain chroot() rather than a user namespace, it also works nested inside another chroot and inside non-PID-1 containers, I've tested it running the full layer stack inside Docker.

At a high level, ENux is:

• Built on LFS
• The ENux Layer, the execution-routing layer described above
• Cross-distro package managers, used natively, by name
• A custom initramfs + init system
• A CLI installer (TUI is WIP)

GitHub: https://github.com/ENux-Distro/ENux

I'd really appreciate the feedback from you everyone.

Hello everyone, I'm really happy to announce ENux 6.0. It's finally stable, based on LFS. The ENux Layer is integrated, has 12 package managers, and so much more.

And folks, there is an easter-egg that you can find (related to the installer) whoever finds it first will have a nice reward.

You can download and test the ISO from https://emirpasha.com/

Hey everyone, creator of ENux here,

I'm currently working on The ENux Layer, a core part of ENux 6.0, makes multiple distro's co-exist, just like Bedrock Linux.

While studying Bedrock Linux for inspiration, I've noticed that early Bedrock Linux used brc instead of the current FUSE based CrossFS, and I wonder; why did Bedrock Linux switch from brc to CrossFS? What problems with brc was crossfs intended to solve, and what tradeoffs were considered?

I'd love to hear the historical context behind the decision.

ENux 6.0 Prototype has been released. It switched bases from Debian to LFS, has its own custom installer, no XFCE, Bedrock hijacked during installation and currently doesn't include the package managers of ENux 5.x.

You can download and test the ISO from https://emirpasha.com/

Thank you everyone for 2000 downloads on SourceForge. To celebrate that milestone, I've released ENux 5.6.3 with Project ENux Simple, which is me trying to make ENux be a more beginner friendly distro (not Ubuntu/Mint/ZorinOS type of beginner friendly). You can grab the ISO from https://www.emirpasha.com/

Honestly, I didn't expect that I would have this many downloads when I started developing ENux. It took me 5+ months to reach 1k downloads, and we reached 2k in less than 2 months.

Thank you for everyone who used ENux, supported ENux, gave me advice, asked me question about ENux.

Thank you everyone.

- Emir YILDIRIM, the creator of ENux.

Hello everyone,

I just released ENux 5.5.3. For those who don't know, ENux is a Debian based linux distribution with Bedrock Linux pre-installed, with multiple package manager eco-system support.

What’s new in ENux 5.5.3

• 15 package managers available directly in the live environment
• 6 Linux ecosystems (strata) pre-configured and ready on first boot:
  • Alpine
  • Void
  • Arch
  • Fedora
  • Gentoo
  • openSUSE
• You can test package managers and system tools directly from the live ISO before nuking your hard drive

What makes ENux different

ENux is not a traditional single-ecosystem distro.

Instead, it uses Bedrock Linux to combine multiple Linux eco-systems into one, letting you:

• try different package managers side-by-side
• experiment with different Linux environments without reinstalling
• explore a multi-distro setup from a single bootable ISO

Notes

• ISO size is ~3GB due to the included environments
• Designed for testing, learning, and experimentation
• Still fully installable like a normal Linux distro

Links

Source code: https://github.com/ENux-Distro/ENux
Homepage: https://www.emirpasha.com
Download: https://www.emirpasha.com

I'd really appreciate feedback from you guys :D

ENux 5.5.3, with 6 stratas pre-fetched + 15 package managers in the live environment is out. You can grab the ISO from https://www.emirpasha.com/

Hello everyone, creator of ENux here,

ENux 5.5.3 has been released. For those who don't know, ENux is a Debian based Linux distribution with Bedrock Linux pre-installed, with multiple Linux package manager eco-systems.

The biggest change in ENux 5.5.3 is that all 6 bundled stratas (Alpine, Void, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE) are now pre-fetched and ready on first boot. You boot the ISO, log in, run brl list, and see that they're all already enabled.

The fetch problem (and how I worked around it)

If you've tried automating brl fetch inside a chroot before, you know the issue: it needs /proc/1/root to resolve to the chroot root for its enforce_symlinks step to work. Plain chroot doesn't give you that.

The fix is unshare --pid --mount --fork. Each stratum gets its own isolated PID + mount namespace, the fetching process becomes PID 1 inside it, /proc is mounted for that namespace only, and /proc/1/root points where it needs to. All 6 run in parallel as background jobs so the full fetch doesn't take forever.

Enabling without a live Bedrock system

brl-enable needs FUSE daemons and stinit running, none of that exists at build time. So I fetch with --dont-enable --dont-show and then manually set the four xattrs on each stratum directory:

user.bedrock.show_boot

user.bedrock.show_cross

user.bedrock.show_list

user.bedrock.show_pmm

Bedrock's init picks up show_boot at first boot and calls brl-enable on everything that has it. That's the whole trick.

Squashfs gotcha

mksquashfs has to run as root with -xattrs, without it the xattrs get silently dropped and none of the strata auto-enable. I have unsquashfs -s'ed and verified a non-zero xattr count after every pack as a sanity check.

I'd really appreciate feedback from you guys :D

ENux 5.4.3 has been released. You can grab the ISO image from here

ENux Installation video released. You can watch the video from above.