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2026-10-31 — Fir exists

No release today. Just a decision about what this project is, written down before it drifts.

Fir is a minimal source-based distribution and a premade rice. The two halves are the point: the desktop is already configured when you boot it, and everything behind it is small enough to read. It is not trying to become a distribution people rely on. It is one person's machine, packaged well enough to hand over.

What changed:

• Cut the idea of a file that declares the whole system. It was starting to turn into a worse Nix, and Fir is supposed to be simple. Hand-editing files is the configuration.
• The tagline is now Fir is real. It is a recursive acronym, which is the only kind of claim this project can currently back up.
• The front page says plainly what Fir is not, so nobody arrives expecting an installer that is not there.
• The package page is labelled as a mock-up rather than presented as a tree.

Next is the build loop: a seed, a chroot, a package with a file manifest, an install, a base tarball. Until that loop closes there is nothing here worth downloading. When it closes, it gets announced on this page first.