POND

ALinuxoperating system

If interested

Thu, Oct 1

9:48 PM

Pre-release version

Some features may not work as expected. Please report any issues or bugs.

Components

(All components are subject
to change based on feedback)

Mind &
Machine

Pond is currently being designed to be both useful and beautiful.

TechnicalSpecifications

Base: Arch Linux, rolling release
Window manager: Niri
Package management: Unified package manager with defaults curated per app for pacman, Nix or Flatpak
Nix integration: System wide GPU support, including Mesa and automatic NVIDIA driver version matching
Kernel timer freq.: 1000 HZ, with full tickless support compiled in
Kernel preemption: Full preemption, with dynamic preemption support
CPU Scheduler: EEVDF with tuned scheduling defaults
Memory management: Multi-Gen LRU enabled
Compiler optimizations: Clang, ThinLTO and -O3
Compressed swap: zram with Zstandard compression; logical swap capacity equal to installed RAM
System tuning: Reduced filesystem-cache eviction, preference for compressed swap and adjusted disk-write buffering and flush intervals
Storage scheduling: BFQ for HDDs, mq-deadline for SATA SSDs, Kyber for NVMe SSDs
Filesystem: Btrfs with Zstandard compression
Snapshots: Snapper, snap-pack package transaction snapshots and GRUB snapshot integration
Alternative scheduling: sched_ext support compiled in; no external scheduler enabled by default

We’re currently looking for people to give our installer, and Pond, a try.