About SkyVision & Longer Vision — the story behind the penguin

The penguin with a child's smile

Look closely at our Tux: that grin belongs to the founder's eldest son. SkyVision is built by Longer Vision Technology, a small engineering shop in Surrey, British Columbia, and the logo is a promise about time horizons — this distribution is built the way you build things for your children: carefully, transparently, and to last.

That is also why release 1.0 carries the codename “Firstborn”. Every major release will be named for a member of the family the project grows with — the people we actually answer to.

Description

What we believe

01 Read the source

An operating system you can't read is an operating system you rent. SkyVision exists so that “how does my computer boot?” has an answer you can open in a text editor.

02 Teach as you build

Linux From Scratch taught a generation how distributions work. SkyVision packages that lesson: the Book isn't documentation about the distro — the distro is the Book, executed.

03 Small and finished

One architecture, one desktop, ~1,800 packages, zero telemetry. We would rather do a short list of things completely than a long list approximately.

History & roadmap

Where we are, where we're going

2024 — the notebook yearsprivate LFS builds, the first sv-prefixed boot scripts Two years of from-scratch builds on a home server, kept alive across kernel LTS cycles, slowly growing recipes worth sharing.
2025 Q4 — svpkg 0.9the build recipes become a package manager The recipe format stabilizes; the first public binary repository is rsync-able.
2026-06-12 — SkyVision 1.0 “Firstborn”you are here First stable release: x86-64, kernel 6.12 LTS, 1,842 packages, the complete Book, Discourse forum.
2026 Q4 — 1.1planned Full-disk-encryption option in sky-install, qcow2 cloud image, repo growth toward 2,500 packages, 简体中文 Book translation.
2027 — 2.0 “Second Son”?exploring Toolchain bump to GCC 15 / glibc 2.42, and a feasibility study for an ARM64 port — to be decided with the community on the forum.

Author

Contact & legal

@ Reach us

General: hello@longervision.us
Security (GPG required): security@longervision.us
Mirrors: mirrors@longervision.us

lic Licensing

SkyVision tooling (svpkg, boot scripts, sky-install) is GPL-2.0. Packaged software keeps its upstream licenses. The Book is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, crediting its LFS heritage.

tm Credits

Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Tux was created by Larry Ewing (lewing@isc.tamu.edu, made with GIMP); our variant adds one very important smile.

Built for the long run.

Download 1.0, read the first chapter, and watch a system come into being under your own hands.

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