2026-11-12

Horizon Alpha 1 is out

Euri Linux: Horizon 26.11.11.0 (Alpha 1) is out.

Not a respin, not a theme pack. A from-scratch distro on musl libc, LLVM 23, dinit, and apk. Built by one person on a NAS.

The alpha ships a live Hyprland session with the Starry Night rice and the viper status bar, the aurora installer, the eros driver tool, and horizon-update with Android-style A/B OTA plus Ed25519-signed updates.

Known and said out loud: userland packages are borrowed from Alpine edge while the from-scratch builds land, and Hyprland is 0.54.3 because the Lua config is blocked by Alpine’s fontconfig. Both return to full from-scratch and Lua form in later builds.

Download it, file an issue if it breaks, and support Horizon on Liberapay so it keeps running.