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Zirconium Hawaii

Zirconium Hawaii

ExperimentalExternal

Zirconium, rebuilt on freedesktop-sdk. Closer to the source.

Zirconium Hawaii is an experiment — initially Niri OS — that turned into a real project. It builds its own components from source on freedesktop-sdk with BuildStream, 100% reproducible. The closest comparison is GNOME OS, which is the project's biggest inspiration — same build system, shared components, different desktop.

Niri (Wayland)Desktop
BuildStreamBuilt with
freedesktop-sdkBase
GNOME OSInspired by
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Features

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Niri compositor

Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. No floating windows, no overlap — just an infinite horizontal workspace.

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Built from source

Every component in the stack is built from source with BuildStream. No binary packages from any distribution.

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Reproducible

Same inputs, same image — every time. BuildStream caches and verifies every build artifact.

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Zirconium reborn

Zirconium, but on freedesktop-sdk instead of Fedora. Same spirit, different foundation — closer to GNOME OS.

Get started

Build from source
git clone https://github.com/zirconium-linux/hawaii.git
cd hawaii
just build

Part of the BuildStream desktop family

Zirconium Hawaii is built with BuildStream on freedesktop-sdk — the same foundation as GNOME OS. These sibling projects share the same build system and base:

TromsøAurora KDE Plasma 6 — built from source on freedesktop-sdk.🖥️XFCE LinuxLightweight XFCE Wayland on the same freedesktop-sdk base.

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