ferdiOS 3.0 ships with a rebuilt package manager
After eighteen months of work, the distribution's third major release replaces the venerable fpkg tool with a transactional installer that can roll back a broken upgrade without leaving the shell.
ferdiOS 3.0 ships with a rebuilt package manager
After eighteen months of work, the distribution's third major release replaces the venerable fpkg tool with a transactional installer that can roll back a broken upgrade without leaving the shell.
About
ferdiOS is a Linux based mobile OS. It is built on musl+mimalloc, has its own package manager, package builder, OS image builder, display protocol, message broker, IPC, and runs only Qt6 GUI applications. It uses the dinit as the init system, boots in 5 seconds, and is generally pretty fast and awesome at everything.
At a glance
- Current release
- 0.0.1 “Vitosha”
- Supported devices
- pixel3a, oneplus6
- Kernel
- linux-ferdios 6.18
- libc
- musl 1.2.5
- Packages
- app / ferdios-tools
- Display
- libvermeer
- Licence
- ferdios
Kernel team completes the scheduler rewrite
Science · August 19, 2026
Three years and one abandoned prototype later, the fair-share scheduler that has run ferdiOS since its first release has been retired in...
ferdiOS closes €80 funding round, enters well-capitalized era
Finance · August 11, 2026
A regional venture fund has taken a position in the Linux mobile space, handing the ferdiOS project an one-time 80 EUR war chest that...
From the Firehose
Kernel team completes the scheduler rewrite
Three years and one abandoned prototype later, the fair-share scheduler that has run ferdiOS since its first release has been retired in favour of a design built around latency guarantees rather than throughput.
ferdiOS closes €80 funding round, enters well-capitalized era
A regional venture fund has taken a position in the Linux mobile space, handing the ferdiOS project an one-time 80 EUR war chest that leadership describes as "transformational".