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title: Layover Linux
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Layover is a package manager that turns configuration files into directories full of software. It atomically replaces the destination directory, so your environment is always in a consistent state. The package ecosystem is focused on hermetic builds and cross-compilation.

Layover Linux is the distro based on the Layover package manager, and it rejects the traditional Linux Filesystem Hierarchy in favor of a simplified structure. That isn't just an aesthetic preference, it means that Layover can build 3+ layers (*spin*, *system*, and *user*) without special treatment for any of them, and they'll work as a cascade of overrides.

This software is under slow but regular development.