This directory is reserved for the Wayland edition of AcreetionOS Linux with the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is not yet implemented — there are no build files here yet.
For working AcreetionOS Cinnamon builds today, see the sibling editions:
- ../X11/ — Standard X.Org Server edition (recommended).
- ../XLibre/ — XLibre (xorg-server fork) edition.
AcreetionOS Linux is a community-driven, lightweight, and versatile distribution. It is currently based on Arch Linux, with the long-term goal of becoming a parallel* distribution with its own base. AcreetionOS ships self-managed repositories hosted at iso.acreetionos.org:8448 rather than consuming upstream Arch — a deliberate stability mechanism for end users.
Wayland is the modern display protocol designed to replace the X Window System. It was created by Kristian Høgsberg in 2008 and merges the display server and compositor into a single process. Compared to X11 it offers:
- Better security — clients are isolated; less code runs as root.
- Better correctness — every frame is "perfect": no tearing, no flicker, no redraw artifacts.
- A simpler, modern architecture — clients render directly to buffers handed to the compositor.
Wayland is now the default session on most major distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL) and on GNOME and KDE Plasma. A Wayland edition of AcreetionOS Cinnamon would track that direction.
Not started. Cinnamon's Wayland support is still maturing upstream, so this edition is pending. Tracking, design notes, and progress will live in this directory once work begins.
- Watch / open issues at https://github.com/cobra3282000/acreetionos/issues.
- Contributor guide: https://github.com/AcreetionOS/AcreetionOSDocumentationPlan/blob/main/documentation/contributor-guide.md.
- Status: Placeholder — no build artifacts yet
- License: GPL-3.0 (project-wide)
- Maintainers: Darren Clift (@cobra3282000), Natalie Spiva (@spivanatalie64)
* Parallel distribution: a distribution similar to, but with a different goal set than, its upstream.