Smech Labs

An independent software lab building its own tools, end to end.

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What Smech Labs Is

Smech Labs is an independent software organization that builds SmechOS, a from-scratch Linux distribution with its own kernel build, KDE Plasma 6 desktop, and spk package manager, along with SmechVisor (a bare-metal hypervisor OS) and the surrounding build tooling. The work favors building things from the ground up -- an independent operating system, its own package manager, its own installer -- over assembling existing components and calling it finished.

Projects

SmechOS

An independent Linux distribution with its own custom build system, the spk package manager, and a KDE Plasma 6 desktop.

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spk-compile

The build orchestrator behind SmechOS -- kernel compilation, the installer, package builds, and everything in between. Successor to SmechDeploy.

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spk

SmechOS's own package manager, built for this distro specifically rather than adapted from another one.

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SmechVisor

A sovereign bare-metal hypervisor OS built on a stripped-down SmechOS base -- direct KVM access via cloud-hypervisor, OpenRC only, and a web control plane for managing VMs and PCIe passthrough.

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Follow the Work

Bug reports and feature requests for SmechOS are tracked separately from the source itself.

SmechOS Issue Tracker