A Carbs Linux fork
A niche, weird Linux distribution for three people (and one "person") who wanted to learn how to maintain a distro. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY NOT USE THIS!
About
BITE is a fork of Carbs Linux - itself a fork of the now-dormant KISS Linux - built by three people who wanted to learn distro maintenance the hard way. It is not for everyone. It is barely for us.
Unlike upstream Carbs, BITE uses glibc. Software actually works. The distro doesn't.
Simple, fast, supervision-based init. Your services stay up. Also countains our script so you don't need to symlink services.
A binary package repo for cpt. All three in Canada, not too far apart from each other. Most likely all in range of the Tsar Bomba if it hit Vancouver instead.
Boot the ISO. Run the script. No manual tarball extraction required.
BITE is on Codeberg. The distro is under the MIT License. This website is also on Codeberg under the BSD Zero Clause License.
𐑓𐑹𐑒𐑛 𐑓𐑮𐑪𐑥 𐑩 𐑓𐑹𐑒 𐑪𐑝 𐑩𐑯 𐑩𐑚𐑨𐑯𐑛𐑩𐑯𐑛 𐑛𐑦𐑕𐑑𐑮𐑴. 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑩 𐑓𐑰𐑗𐑼.
There's something in the room we need to address...
BITE ships with ten load-bearing elephant PNGs. These files are not decorative. They are required for system stability. The fewer elephants present on your system, the more unstable BITE becomes.
This is not a joke. Do not test it.
What a stable system looks like
10/10 elephants present - System stable.
What happens when you delete them
3/10 elephants present - System critical.
Warning: 7 elephants missing. Random service failures, degraded filesystem performance, and increasing boot instability detected. Restore elephants immediately.
Installation
Download the ISO, boot it, and run the installer script. It handles partitioning, rootfs extraction, and initial setup.
bite-install
cpt-install neovim