Iron Linux · Operating system
A small, coherent Linux desktop.
Iron Linux is Debian underneath, with a Wayland desktop built from a short list of native components and an iron-and-machined-metal identity. No bundled desktop environment.
Debian, with a point of view.
The kernel, firmware, apt, dpkg, systemd and hardware support come straight from Debian's archive, unmodified. Iron adds a curated desktop and identity on top, and uses Debian's own repositories as its only APT sources — so apt and third-party .deb packages work as on any Debian machine.
Images are produced with Debian live-build from a committed configuration, so the whole build is reproducible from a clean checkout.
The desktop stack
- Compositor
- Labwc — a small wlroots stacking compositor
- Login
- greetd with the gtkgreet greeter
- Panel
- Waybar
- Launcher
- Fuzzel
- Notifications
- Mako
- Terminal and files
- Foot and PCManFM
- Installer
- Calamares, with Iron modules
- Browser
- Firefox ESR
Every package choice has a written rationale in the project's docs/PACKAGES.md.
Images
- x86-64 live/installer ISO for PCs, laptops and virtual machines
- Raspberry Pi 4 ARM64 disk image — build validated, hardware validation pending
Elsewhere
- ironlinux.pages.dev — the Iron Linux product site
- github.com/crossainthero-lab/IronLinux — source and releases