MISSION

Supply a binary Linux OS that is easy to install and customize for the Desktop, Server and for the Container world (Incus/LXD, Docker, Singularity/Apptainer).
In particular, with an eye on optimizing Incus/LXD technology and setup to permit the best integration with lxd-compose tool.
Macaroni Linux OS is a distribution born as an incubation project under the Funtoo Linux umbrella for one year and now it's grown and has his domain and infra.
It's been created by Daniele Rondina (ex Sabayon Linux developer) aka geaaru.
In August 2024, the M.A.R.K. stack was started as a part of the Macaroni Organization replacing the dependency with the low-level Funtoo stack with a future mission of replacing Portage.
The name Macaroni comes from the penguin species found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. It bears a distinctive yellow crest.

SUPPORT US

Maintaining a distribution requires effort, costs, and hardware. In the last period, a lot of communities and projects have been abandoned from too few contributions. If you use Macaroni OS or M.A.R.K. consider donating something to the Project to help us support the infra costs and to buy hardware for testing and building. You can donate over on our Github Sponsor.

CREDITS

This distribution is here thanks the initial support of the Funtoo Foundation and to Daniel Robbins aka drobbins, thanks to our partners and thanks to donations.
Many many thanks.

Our Partners

Maintaining a distro is hard and we really love all consortiums, sponsors, opensource initiative and people that help us with this.

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CDN 77

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Consortium TOP-IX

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Docker Inc.

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Consortium GARR

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Simple Installation

With the Anise tool is very fast and easy install. A GUI is on our backlog.

Free updates

Yeah, I'm free and available through the Macaroni repositories and through the CDN77 and Cloudflare CDN.

Automate everything

The build of the packages is managed through Mottainai CD/CI or through lxd-compose and could be customized from users easily.

Multiple Releases

Macaroni OS supplies different releases for different requirements and others are on the way.

Customize packages to install at runtime

Through the subsets you can choose what files install and reduce the spaces used on your rootfs.

Validate installation

We working on tools that permit to validation of the hashes of the installed files and catch corrupted modified by an attack.

MACARONI OS
Customizable Distro at Runtime M.A.R.K. (ex Funtoo) Powered Binary Distro with a foot in the code

MISSION

SUPPORT US

CREDITS