Argo OS Development Sprint: Btrfs Snapshots and Binary Packages
A deep dive into fixing critical boot issues, implementing openSUSE-style Btrfs snapshots, and setting up binary package infrastructure for my custom Gentoo distro.
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Building Argo OS: 100 Days of Creating a Custom Linux Distribution
The complete story of building a custom Gentoo-based distribution with automatic rollback, distributed compilation, and hybrid package management. Part disaster log, part technical guide, part therapy session.
The Argo OS Journey - Part 2: The Qt6 Crisis & The 2-Minute Rollback
Everything was perfect. Then I ran a system update. How a simple elogind mismatch broke KDE Plasma, and how Btrfs saved me from a 6-hour debugging session.
The Argo OS Journey - Part 3: The Cloud & The Code
Local snapshots are great until your house burns down. How I built encrypted cloud backups with Rclone, accidentally wrote a 2,146-line package manager, and learned that udisks2 is not optional.
The Argo OS Journey - Part 4: The Hybrid Vision
Why I decided to mix Gentoo and Nix. Creating a system that is perfectly optimized at the core and perfectly reproducible at the edge. And yes, I know this is over-engineered.