Development blog

Field notes from the workshop.

We are building LeivOS in public. These are the things we hit, the things we built to get past them, and the reasoning underneath.

October 11, 2026

The desktop, in public

LeivOS now has a home on Reddit and Discord, and the first screenshots of its desktop: software-rendered windows, a USB mouse, WPA3 Wi-Fi and applications that run on threads, on a real laptop.

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March 15, 2024

Hello world

Two weeks in. We have a UEFI-loaded kernel that boots, prints, and panics on purpose. Here is what that took, and what we decided early.

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