My Linux story started long before 2000 year in totally other time - internet was something new and not very available (for me) and distributions were normally provided on the CD (additionally configuring hardware and things like X-Windows was really something and sometimes I was using even floppy disks for some tasks like booting system). Ca. 2000 I was already writing some universal software working in Windows AND Linux (mainly with serial cable, infrared or bluetooth connections, but of course not only).

Some standards were created and market was growing. Later it was only better and more optimistic - Mandrake, Mandrive, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu and many others were always adding something.

Today hardware is much more powerfull than ever, but PCs many times are used for the same things (writing texts, web browsing, gaming, etc.). Users don't see progress anymore - we have high prices, less and less diversity and good options (we went into monopol era), additionally technical and general knowledge goes down (there are everywhere paywalls or AI sloop and doing something more intelligent with PC is left for people with education). Some changes for worse are visible even in Linux world - reputable distributions like Ubuntu (and companies like Canonical) are trying to rewrite something again and again (with too much politics), unfortunately it ends practically always with worse quality.

Because of it I'm still searching for good distribution (temporarly it will be probably Debian or NixOS) and I started asking myself:

How difficult would be creating own distro, which could avoid mistakes visible in current Linux mainstream?

And here it goes - in April 2026 I started PLLinux project.

Stupid? Maybe. A lot of work? Oh yes. Fun? Definitely. Can I do it? I think so (disclaimer: I'm putting here all from more than 30 years, which includes formal engineer education, experience from many years of developing, testing and using PC). Is it project just for short time? Rather not.

After some initial research PLLinux is currently marked as "Linux distro built around bwrap/busybox/dinit and other free tools (with app/user sandboxing) with extra app separation in main filesystem (more user-friendly than in NixOS)". In July 2026 I have basic set of tools and elements (bash, busybox, bwrap, dinit, e2fsprogs, git, gnupg, mc, nftables, openssl and more), practically ready basic package manager and script for building almost everything from the source and of course internet/pendrive access and some documentation. And this is just beginning. There is created bigger roadmap and things are going further and further (on x86 VM, I hope to make all in real hardware soon)...

From nice things I should mention reactivating my account after 23 years:

(I need some place to put packages until I will find maybe something better - if you need public key, here it is)