Vessel Linux

A Linux distribution built with Sigil. The design describes a whole machine as one Sigil program: packages, services, users and storage. The experiment already produces a reproducible disk image; building it twice produces the same image.

The plan is for every change to become a generation you can boot back into. The desktop will use Wayland, PipeWire and Tessera, without a desktop environment's worth of dependencies along for the ride.

(system
  kernel:   (kernel package: linux)
  packages: (list busybox foot tessera)
  services: (list (getty-service "tty1")
                  (ssh-server-service)
                  (wireguard-service "wg0"))
  storage:  (disk-layout root: 'immutable))

Proposed configuration. The system interfaces are still taking shape.

Pre-release. Vessel boots in QEMU; there is nothing to install yet.

• Boots from a UEFI disk image with SSH, WireGuard and state that survives a reboot.
• Two independent builds produce byte-identical images.
• Next: service definitions written in Sigil, then generations and rollback, then a Tessera desktop session.

• 2026-10-25Vessel boots