AuziX has crossed an important little line: the current alpha no longer stops at being interesting live media. It installs to a blank VM disk, installs GRUB, reboots from that disk, starts SSH and Enlightenment, and reaches its package repository again after reboot.

That is not a finished operating system. It is, however, a real installed one.

Installed AuziX alpha desktop showing AbiWord, Gnumeric, Midori, Package Control, and the system root

The screenshot is from the installed VM, not a design mockup. It shows several parts of the system meeting in one session:

  • the Enlightenment desktop and AuziX theme assets;
  • AbiWord and Gnumeric launched from repository-installed packages;
  • the native EFL Package Control frontend;
  • Midori loading the public Auzietek site;
  • the readable /Programs, /System, /Services, /Users, and /Work layout visible from a root shell.

What the alpha proved

The build began with a preserved, known-working live root. A deliberately small set of committed changes corrected installer and package frontends, SSH access, desktop asset locations, and theme discovery without replacing the underlying system again.

The resulting ISO passed BIOS and UEFI media checks. On a disposable Proxmox VM it then:

  1. booted from the ISO;
  2. generated and separately confirmed a whole-disk install plan;
  3. partitioned a blank 32 GiB disk and copied the live root;
  4. installed BIOS GRUB;
  5. rebooted disk-first with AUZIXROOT mounted as /;
  6. restored SSH, Xorg, Enlightenment, writable user state, and package access;
  7. refreshed a repository containing more than 100 package candidates.

The source, build receipt, ISO checksum, and VM evidence were kept together so the result can be inspected instead of remembered vaguely.

Alpha means alpha

This image is for VM and spare-hardware experimentation. Do not install it over data you care about. The installer currently offers a guarded whole-disk path, not a mature partition editor.

Known bugs in this checkpoint include:

  • the live image lacks ext4 formatting tools, so this tested installation used the installer's ext2 fallback;
  • the selected hostname is not yet applied to the installed root;
  • 1920×1080 and the intended sci-fi desktop theme still need manual selection;
  • Midori's profile/trust presentation needs more cleanup even though system TLS validates the public certificate;
  • some package intake automation still needs strict Debian suite pinning.

Those are bugs, not hidden launch polish. This release exists so the next work can start from a reproducible installed checkpoint.

Try the alpha

Download the AuziX x86-64 alpha ISO

SHA-256 checksum:

bc5ab250780d7ed7619a45db073f3ce1e4c355574d6f1d8dd637b20ad2121776

Boot it in a disposable VM first. The validated target used BIOS boot, a 32 GiB disk, 12 GiB of memory, and a VirtIO network adapter.

Source and ongoing work: github.com/auzieman/AuziX