Making Simple Graphical Linux Distro from Scratch 

lets go! I can see hundreds of new distros flooding in after this video 😂

The cursor trails are probably due to Nano-X running in Framebuffer mode. I observed that the mouse trails over the window disappear when the window is repainted. The trails are due to the background not being repainted as the mouse is moved. The window itself doesn't leave any traces when moved though. So it's just the mouse cursor that lacks integration with the window management.

Excellent example of how we don't all need a fully bloated Linux distro to do real work. Thanks, Nir!

It is shockingly simple to create your own distro. Iv'e always thought, that it is super difficult and LFS was the only option to create a custom distro. Really nice tutorial! I'm gonna try to create my own distro later. Keep up making simple and amazing videos like this!

Nice to see that you read the comment on the last linux distro video and actually explained what the end result would be at the begonning

Yesterday I freaked out because I watched your video about creating a non-graphical system. And now this! You redefine what kool is.

Great videos, man! I've done two of your projects so far and have learned so much from them. Keep up the great work!

hello nir, i was doing the past tutorial of busybox to make a simple linux distro, and now, I watch at my laptop, at your channel, and i found this 💎. unbelievable. thx for so much

What a great video. I have absolutely no use for this but I'm going to follow along and built it myself too.

very cool! I think im going to try it too. Cheers. BTW i love your vids!

We all love tutorials like this!

Mental outlaw? Is that you?

Amazing, from your old non-graphical distro you already earned a subscriber but this is double as cool, if i could subscribe to you twice i would.

Wow, What a great video. Thanks a lot for teaching us these cool stuff. 😊😊

Awesome video, thanks!

dropped everything i was doing to watch this lol nice content

hey i stumbled upon your videos recently, they seem to be pretty simple and straight to the point which i think is pretty cool, neat stuff!

Brilliant, this isn't looks that complicated compare what I thought

Thanks for sharing. Just subscribed.

This is really good for beginners who want their own OS or distro but don't quite have the knowledge for it; Well done!

Awesome stuff!

very cool nice pro stuff mate

This looks hard, very very interesting video nonetheless!

wow this is amazing

I Had no trouble setting up Nano-X, but when trying to start the server (`nano-X`), I get an error saying: "Cannot initialize keyboard". I wonder why it does that and how can I fix it? Also, I want to use SDL2 on fullscreen with KMS/DRM, how can I do that? I can't find any helpful ressources online.

@nirlichtman the X Window System is supposed to have a complete and transparent separation between the XServer part and the client application part. However, in most cases, both run the same machine so it is never clear how the two components works. Now that you came one tutorial with NanoX and an earlier with writing an X11 application, could you take a shot at a tutorial that clearly demonstrates the two parts? A machine that only implements the XServer part and connects over network to another machine that strictly implements the Client application part.

15:44 why you use /dev/sda instead of / ? I confuse because in the previous video, the root parameter is /

How is that theme called that you use to mimic the look of windows?

Ideal tutorial. Thank you! But I have one question. How to disable "Please press Enter to activate this console" after startup system?

LFS spends a lot of steps on the host before the target is bootable. Can we keep going from busybox and nanox as a way to get self-hosting earlier?

Amazing work

i understood only a half but still great video thanks man

If im not mistaken, wasn't xz-utils recently part of a major exploit? Would it still be safe to use xz-utils?

Additional info: while make menuconfig, you can directly press y, n, or m, instead of pressing `space` again and again.

Would this have been affected by the XZ/Libzma backdoor vulnerability?

finally, yeah baby

Drink every time nir says actually

Very cool! Is it possible to include chromium-browser (gpu accelerated?) and automatically start it in kiosk mode for a specific website?

Pretty cool, but I could not help but notice you copied libc and some other libs from the debian docker distro instead of compiling them from source. Which is fine of course, but why not compile those too, if you go the length of compiling busybox and nanox. Or do you recon that would be a video in itself, to show how to link all programs against a source-build libc version?

If you are using an actual linux distro for it, you can use fakeroot to simulate being root, it's pretty useful when creating the initrd for example C:

excellent video

how would you add smth like git to this? Would it be to /usr and binaries?

How difficult to add package manager for this distro? For example pacman or nix.

Hey Nir. Thanks for the video! If possible, please suggest workarounds and stuff for M1 chip users

nice video!

what did you choose as a specialty after the first years in college computer science so you can understand and making distro ? i like ur content btw

When starting in qemu, I'm getting an endless stream of "can't open /dev/ttyX: No such file or directory" The X is 1 to 4. What did I miss?

I will run it on my Android device to learn how it works, by termux. May it's possible by using X11-termux close as you did.

thx nice video. I was inspired to create a simple BusyBox distro with networking. Every time I try post a link or ref, my post seems to get removed. 😭

Pro tip: To make Cirrus an integrated part of the kernel, you need to make CONFIG_DRM integrated as well. Also, in the .config file (visible with ls -a), don't forget to replace the Certs part: # # Certificates for signature checking # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY="certs/signing_key.pem" CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS="" CONFIG_SYSTEM_EXTRA_CERTIFICATE=y CONFIG_SYSTEM_EXTRA_CERTIFICATE_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_SECONDARY_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_KEYRING=y CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_HASH_LIST="" CONFIG_SYSTEM_REVOCATION_LIST=y CONFIG_SYSTEM_REVOCATION_KEYS="" # end of Certificates for signature checking This should work in most circumstances. The main difference with this config is that it doesn't use canonical's certs.

Very Cool !!! I'm asking myself how do you know all this things. And can you make a tuto of making a mini-DE for Linux?

Wee want more high quality content like this 😊

This is very cool but how to add a config file syslinux.cfg in this process??

any chance you could do one on making android custom rom?

Awesome

chad behaviour

Making a GUI Linux distro in Windows? Sounds legit.

hell yeah

Is it possible to install a de in the os?

👍👍Nice!!

How we should trust guy with windows in linux setup?

👌

Could it be possible to make a package system for a distro like this?

make a sequel where you can actually do programming in this with someting like gcc, nasm, python, or any modern language bcuz this could have a lot of extensibility on the os

can i replace nanox with full x11 or wayland?

You skipped the hardest part, internet connectivity 🤣.

13:10 what's the difference between dd and truncate?

what keyboard/mouse do u use

Without sounding too puritanical, curious as to why you're doing this from a Windows desktop instead of Linux

need some automation.

Think you could do a FreeBSD version?

yo! i've been waiting for this one!

why so difficult. how do you work with vim. it is impossible.

please make a video where you make a linux distro with package managers, installer, proper bootloader (grub), gnome, and stuff like that to make good distro. because there's no really much guides or videos on this topic. maximum what you could find is making really simple linux distro with busybox only, thats bad...

Bro... I gonna make the ultimate gaming distro out of this, starts with a console, opens a graphical application when demanded

Yofi !

Building Linux distro from Windows. Yeah, rright.

Why you using windows lol?

Schade, dass du nicht erklärst, was du tust.

using nanoX is cheating :(( make one with xooooorrrggggg :(

HOW THE FUCK DO I WRITE IN THE CONFIG FILE

🎉super𓽤

"xz-utils" bum

This is awesome!