An operating system for people who build things.
vinOS is the first Linux distribution where autonomous agents run on a schedule as first-class citizens — not cron jobs, not Zapier flows, but real Claude- and Ollama-powered agents with tools, memory, verification, and per-run budgets, running in the background while you work. 80% of that work runs on local models on your own hardware; the hard 20% escalates to a premium API. The stack is a thin, readable layer over stock Arch Linux — you can leave any time and nothing follows you.
What we're building
Everyone else has agents you talk to. vinOS has agents that
run without you — briefing you at 6 am, reviewing your
PRs at 1 pm, closing your day at 6 pm — and stay quiet when
they have nothing to say. The primitive is a
routine: one declarative TOML file, one
systemd timer, whitelist-enforced tools inside a bwrap sandbox, and
a SQLite ledger that meters every token. You commit the routines
next to your code (.vinos/routines.yaml) and your
teammates inherit the same agents on clone.
That's the whole thesis. Everything else — the Hyprland desktop, the
88 vinos-* utilities, the T2 Mac support, the 5 shipped
themes — exists to make sure the primitive works on the machine you
already own, without a setup weekend.
What vinOS is built on
vinOS is a Linux distribution. Like every Linux distribution, it composes open-source components with our own work. The small print:
- Arch Linux — vinOS is built from the archiso profile published by the Arch Linux project. Modifications retained under the same GPL-3.0 terms. vinOS is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Arch Linux project.
- Omarchy (MIT) — vendored verbatim as the desktop configuration layer. Upstream: basecamp/omarchy. vinOS extends it with the routine runtime and the
vinos-*utility set. - linux-t2 (GPL-2.0) — the T2-patched kernel from t2linux/linux-t2 ships as vinOS's primary kernel so Apple T2 hardware works from first boot.
- Broadcom firmware — redistributed under Broadcom's binary firmware terms for Wi-Fi compatibility on T2 hardware.
- Wallpaper photographers — every shipped theme uses a wallpaper from a working photographer on Unsplash. Attribution appreciated but not legally required; we credit them anyway because they earned it. Full list in the theme ATTRIBUTION.md.
Full third-party notices: NOTICES.md. Trademarks — Apple, Mac, MacBook, T2, and Arch Linux are trademarks of their respective owners; their use in vinOS is nominative. vinOS is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.
Our own code is under LICENSE.
Sponsors
vinOS is developed in public by one person and funded by people who find it useful. Every sponsor dollar goes to (in order) hosting the ISO on a mirror, buying the T2 Macs and NVIDIA rigs the release cycle needs to test on, and time — the release cadence is proportional to how much time the project can afford. There are no VCs, no exit path, no telemetry.