I'm building an operating system, or so is the intention, and i have started with the userland (which should run upon any posix system) as it were the thing, specially on Linux, that i were more discontent with, the result is the current distro that i am building "Glacies", that is the "Eltanin" userland with Linux as kernel.



All is still in pretty early stage, but i have done quite a few things:
* tertium (own non-posix libc)
* ecore (unix utilities)
* ccore (complementary core, mostly heirloom-toolchest)
* ports (source-based package manager)
* simia (posix compatibility layer upon tertium, supposed to replace musl later)
* venus (binary package manager)

The system is built with simplicity in mind, so the tools that compose the base system are selected with this in mind.

A few uncommon things, worth to citate:
* the entire system is statically linked
* the filesystem hierarchy is the standard, but with /usr as link to /
* manpages are compressed with zlib (.zz)
* sinit and perp compose the init system
* rc is the default shell (dash is the posix one)

I'm now deciding how to provide a more complete desktop, i have tried to add Xorg to ports but it has being painful to make it work statically (a LOT of dependencies, cyclic dependencies with drivers, ignoring flags, etc.).

Links:
https://eltan.in.net
https://github.com/eltanin-os
https://gitlab.com/eltanin-os
https://git.tuxfamily.org/eltaninos

Please leave your opinions and feel free to ask anything.