Nexus Core
Planned — Q3 2026
Nexus Core is the workstation and server profile — a 4–8MB system for general-purpose computing with full desktop and networking capabilities.
Target Hardware
- x86_64 workstations and servers
- ARM64 servers and high-end SBCs
- RISC-V 64 workstations (when available)
What's Included
- Rumpk kernel with full SMP (DragonflyBSD LWKT)
- Rumkv hypervisor (optional)
- NexFS with full Sovereign extensions (CAS, CDC, DAG, TimeWarp)
- Complete Membrane network stack (LwIP + UTCP)
- Surface Manager with compositor
- nip package manager (full)
- SignalForge (optional)
- ProvChain audit trail
- Full NPK application ecosystem
Desktop Variants
Default Desktop
- KDE Plasma on Wayland
- systemd init
- Immutable system layout
- nip + NipCells for application isolation
Pro Desktop
- Niri or Hyprland window manager
- Dinit init system
- nip only (no Flatpak, no Snap)
- Minimal footprint, maximum control
Server Variant
- No display stack
- containerd / podman for container workloads
- Kubernetes-ready
- Pledge/unveil enforcement on all containers
- UTCP for inter-node communication
Build
sh
nexus build --profile=core --arch=x86_64 --variant=desktop
nexus build --profile=core --arch=x86_64 --variant=server
nexus build --profile=core --arch=aarch64 --variant=pro