A few weeks back I wrote about guix-install, the new one-binary installer for plain Guix, Nonguix, and PantherX. It was keyboard-only: a TTY walk through Mode → Locale → … → Summary. That still works and isn’t going anywhere. But installing an OS from a text prompt isn’t for everyone, so it now has a graphical front end.
Guix is great on the command line, but guix search, guix install, and guix upgrade aren’t where most people want to spend their day. So there’s now a GUI for the everyday stuff: guix-gui.
The old PantherX installer was getting in the way more than it was helping — fragile, no way to resume when something went sideways mid-install, and the code had grown a few too many special cases. So I started over: meet guix-install.
PantherX has a new official home: codeberg.org/gofranz/panther. The channel introduction commit and signing key are unchanged — only the URL moves. If you were using the old channels.pantherx.org URL, please switch over; that host is being retired.
Today PantherX is simplifying, and moving closer to GUIX, to reduce fragmentation in the ecosystem, reduce maintenance burden, and make it easier for users to switch to PantherX OS, or get help.
Deprecated. The URLs below are no longer current. PantherX has since moved to a new home on Codeberg with a new substitute server. See New home on Codeberg, new substitute server for the up-to-date channel and key.
The Electrum package that ships with Guix does not support many hardware wallets out of the box - usually due to licensing reasons.
Moving forward PantherX OS will “support” multiple flavor of desktop environments, to embrace the variety of options, and make users with different preferences feel more at home (QT vs GTK). Our goal to provide a smooth, out of the box experience has not changed, but the approach on how-to achieve this needs to adapt; specifically, the only future for PantherX OS is a future with a vibrant community because keeping up requires contributors and different skill sets.
When you’re working on something you enjoy, hours become days, days become weeks and before you realize it, an entire year has passed, and all that you’ve got to show is … well, that’s the big question, isn’t it?
It seems like forever that we have started working on this but the wait has finally paid-off. On behalf of the entire team, I’m proud to announce the first beta of PantherX OS.
It’s the end of June and all that’s circling my mind is, that if we push off the release by just one more week, it will be 2032, and everyone’s wearing brain interfaces instead of typing away on keyboards or shouting words at their phone… Not yet.
It has been a long time since we’ve made any noise and there really has not been anything exciting happening! Developing a new distribution does not happen over night - much rather, it’s a long, tedious grind to get everything ready for prime time.
2019 has been a packet, yet very satisfying year for us. As we approach our initial release of PantherX, I’ve put aside some time to add more information to our website.
I admit, this statement is very relative, but we’ve been so occupied with PantherX, that little thought goes into outreach to the community and our backers - sorry!
As we progress towards an initial Alpha release of PantherX OS, we’re also hard at work, building a community around PantherX and projects we rely on.
We’re happy to announce the initial preview of our new PantherX Wiki.
As we leave 2018 behind, we reflect on our accomplishments, and what we’d like to achieve this year, not only for ourselves, but the ones we care about.
Today we’re introducing the new, PantherX Open Source Bounty Program, designed to help us resolve issues faster, and with the help of outside contributors.
Development and maintenance of a new Linux distribution, is no easy task, but when you’re also working to overhaul most of the default desktop applications, it quickly becomes chaotic. From the very start, we’ve chosen GitLab’s open source edition, with tight git integration, issue tracker, and built-in continuous integration.
PantherX OS is a reliable, user-friendly operating system that builds on GNU Guix but incorporates non-free software and drivers including nonguix to make it easy to install and use on a wide range of hardware.
