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Show HN: RAM based Linux distribution Invelinux for low-end hardware, 1.0 Stablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431956Hi, I am sumtas!I want to present a pretty cool project to Hacker News that I have been working on for the last 8 months. It is an independent, initramfs based distribution tailored for older computers that might be going to the landfill. It has a collection of QoL features for power users who want to try this niche operating system on their hardware.1. It saves system configurations (/etc), applications (/bin), user configurations (/usr) into an external drive with a partition named "INVEL_AMPS". These directories can be accessed from the /storage/AMPS directory. 2. To install applications on this persistent drive, Invelinux uses its custom made package manager called AMPS (Automatically Mounted Packaging System). Its syntax and commands are relatively straightforward for beginners since it is also coded in Bash. 3. The system keeps itself minimal with the Toybox userland and the musl C library, and its init system is like SysV inits. As init, systemd is avoided entirely. Invelinux usAug 25, 2026 11:14 AM