// the desktop
XFCE, themed and quiet
Dark Materia theme · Papirus icons · a dock with the tools you actually open
A live and installable Linux distribution for systems developers — with a full development toolchain the moment it boots.
gcc, gdb, clang, cmake, strace, ltrace and neovim are already there. Boot and build — no setup ritual.
Run it from the stick as a portable workstation or a rescue disk, or install it to disk with the graphical installer.
Live-only cruft — autologin, passwordless sudo, VM guest agents — is stripped from the target system automatically.
Arch repositories underneath. Packages stay current; the system never freezes in time behind a release cycle.
One image boots old and new hardware alike. Encryption and LVM are available at install time.
Nothing phones home. Everything is the archiso profile in the open — inspect it, fork it, rebuild it.
Dark Materia theme · Papirus icons · a dock with the tools you actually open
Grab the ISO and its checksum. Verify the download before you write it anywhere.
Use the dd command above, or a tool like Etcher / Ventoy. Boot from the stick.
Launch Install Lyra from the desktop, pick a disk, done.
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Memory | 2,5 GB | 4 GB |
| Disk | 20 GB | 40 GB |
| Firmware | BIOS or UEFI | UEFI |