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Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro (itsfoss.com)
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Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH's distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source.

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, Ikey. I love you, man, but we both know you're going to see something shiny next month and drop this like a hot potato and go completely dark.

this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2026
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