KISS Linux Community

KISS Linux is a meta-distribution created by Dylan Araps, featuring the kiss package manager which makes it easy to maintain your own system.

KISS Linux is an independent Linux(R) distribution with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more.

KISS uses a concise plain-text package system which is parsed by the small, portable, and self-contained package manager written in POSIX shell. By default, KISS is based on musl libc and busybox, but there's no lock-in to specific software; everything can be replaced. The main repository is a small and opinionated base of packages which users can build upon to suit their needs.

We're on IRC at #kisslinux on libera.chat (logs are available here).

Important links

WARNING: the old kisslinux.org website seems to have been taken over by bad actors and although it looks similar to Dylan's pages (which have expired) they contain analytics and adverts. Dylan's website is now available here: https://kisslinux.github.io/

If you're installing KISS, refer to the community install guide alongside the official guide.

You can contribute to this wiki! See website/ for details.