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2026-09-09 19:10 UTC

Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro 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.

Replies (7)

  • @eleijeep@piefed.social 2026-09-09 20:17

    Why even mention the nazi distro at all?

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  • Guys, just use nix, please it’s everything you say you want in a OS…

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  • @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-09-10 06:07

    Barney the distro builder tool sounds interesting. I mean I could just use Archlinux and build my distro this way. Not sure how Barney works, as the repositories need to be supported and then this becomes a distro, not a distro builder tool. I still have to read about this tool to understand. This actually has nothing to do with Omarchy and the popularity of the distro is used to market his own tool in the blog post.

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  • @vas@lemmy.ml 2026-09-10 06:17

    I don’t get why this is upvoted. Can we just forget that nightmare that Omarchy is, and attempts to bring it back up (by authors that are getting paid some of the 10 million or otherwise)?

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  • @Paradoxeuh@jlai.lu 2026-09-10 06:55

    Ikey is abandoning project faster than I change my underwear

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  • @Hundun@beehaw.org 2026-09-10 11:39

    We wanted a year of Linux desktop - there it is, an army of tech bros going through “baby’s first rice” arc in the most annoying way possible.

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  • @nyan@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-11 11:44

    Barney. Is its mascot a purple dinosaur that everyone over the age of five hates with a passion? Because that’s the association the name calls up for me, and it makes me dislike the project just on general principles. (Other than that, I have no dog in this fight.)

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