About Barney
Barney exists to make operating system engineering more accessible, reusable and independent.
Building an operating system shouldn't mean building every piece of infrastructure around it from scratch. Barney provides the machinery to describe, build, compose and maintain operating systems — while leaving the decisions about what those systems should be to the people building them.
It's an independent, open-source engineering project built around a simple idea: bring your own operating system.
An ecosystem, not another distro
Barney is the platform. It provides the tools and engineering foundations.
bny-base is a collection of reusable recipes and modules that can be used, adapted or replaced.
Pavee OS is an example of what can be built with Barney — a practical proving ground, not the limit of what the platform can become.
You don't have to use any particular distribution, package collection or system design. The point is to give you the freedom and machinery to build your own.
Built independently, in the open
Barney is developed independently by a small engineering effort, with its source, progress and development available in the open.
The aim is to make serious OS engineering something more people can take part in: something that can be understood, shared and built upon, rather than locked inside a particular organisation or dependent on a handful of people.
Build what you need. Own how it works.