Announcing AnduinOS 2.0 Beta: The Declarative Revolution and the New Era of Distro Engineering

[Anduin2017]

Hong Kong — June 13, 2026 — Today, AIURSOFT LIMITED is thrilled to announce the beta release of AnduinOS v2.0.0.

This is not just another system update; it is a fundamental, ground-up architectural rewrite of our entire operating system. Listening closely to community feedback regarding maintainability and package management, we have completely reimagined how AnduinOS is built, distributed, and maintained.

We are officially leaving the era of "remastering" behind and stepping into the era of true Distro Engineering.

From Shell Scripts to a Declarative Architecture

Historically, many custom Linux distributions relied on fragile imperative Bash scripts for system configuration. With v2.0.0, we have thrown that approach out the window.

AnduinOS is now assembled within a pristine, sandboxed debootstrap and chroot pipeline. At the heart of this revolution is the introduction of aosproj & apkg—our unique, XML-based declarative Domain Specific Language and automated compilation toolchain. Instead of hacking the system post-install, the AnduinOS core is now meticulously modularized into 56 standalone native .deb packages.

This means a more stable, predictable, and reproducible operating system for every user.

100% Native APT, Zero Telemetry

We believe in the power of the upstream ecosystem without the bloat. Custom updaters have been officially retired; AnduinOS now relies purely on the standard sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. This preserves seamless compatibility with standard Ubuntu repositories while keeping you in full control.

More importantly, our automated CI pipeline now enforces a strict "hard-fail" policy. If unwanted Ubuntu packages—such as snapd or Canonical telemetry services—are detected during the build, the ISO generation is aborted. This guarantees that every AnduinOS 2.0 ISO delivered to you is pristine and fundamentally privacy-respecting.

Built for Speed: Linux Kernel 7 & Ubuntu 26.04 Base

Under the hood, AnduinOS 2.0 transitions to the cutting-edge Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute) base, powered by Linux Kernel 7 for extensive out-of-the-box hardware compatibility and modern graphics support.

We didn’t stop at the defaults. We have heavily tuned the kernel parameters specifically for desktop workloads to deliver lower latency and a highly responsive UX:

• Memory & I/O: Tuned vm.swappiness=10 and vm.dirty_background_ratio=5 to eliminate UI freezes during heavy disk writes.
• Network: Enabled BBR congestion control and tcp_fastopen=3 for maximized network throughput.
• Developer Ready: Raised fs.inotify limits to 524288 to effortlessly handle heavy file-watching tasks.

A Global Multilingual Experience in a 2.5GB ISO

Previously, supporting multiple languages meant building and hosting separate ISOs. Today, we are proud to introduce Runtime Language Selection.

All 28 officially supported languages—including newly added Danish, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Finnish, Hindi, and Greek—now ship in a single, ultra-optimized ~2.5GB ISO. Users can select their native language directly from the GRUB boot menu before even entering the live session, with full Unicode font support for CJK, Arabic, and Thai scripts right at the bootloader stage.

To achieve this incredible footprint without sacrificing a modern GNOME experience, we replaced legacy applications with lightweight, next-generation alternatives. Loupe replaces the old image viewer, Showtime handles video, Resources takes over task management, and GNOME Music gracefully retires the aging Rhythmbox. For our Chinese users, we engineered a zero-pollution anduinos-rime package that uses dpkg-divert to provide world-class input without pulling in decades-old upstream dependencies.

Backed by Aiursoft, Powered by the Community

AnduinOS 2.0 marks the transition from a solo-maintained hobbyist project to an internationally backed ecosystem maintained by AIURSOFT LIMITED (Hong Kong).

To support our growing global user base, all APT repositories have been migrated to packages.anduinos.com. Powered by Cloudflare's load balancing, our nodes across the US, Europe, and Asia will deliver low-latency package updates to you, wherever you are.

As always, AnduinOS remains deeply committed to the open-source philosophy. All AnduinOS 2 projects, packages, and shell extensions are proudly licensed under the GPL-v3.

Experience the Declarative Revolution today.

Download

• Download the new beta ISO at packages.anduinos.com/ISO/2.0/.

Additional

• Visit the official website at anduinos.com.
• Explore the OS source code and join the discussion on our GitHub Repository.
• Browse the package source code at anduinos-packages.

Full release note please visit: https://docs.anduinos.com/CHANGELOG.html.

[VVDAOVV]

Thank you !
Testing !

[Anduin2017]

Did you delete all the other comments? I'm currently writing a reply.

[VVDAOVV]

Yes, i do not want to spam, all resolved . Is a presentation message not nice from me to post all kind of things. Deleted other comments hours ago :)

• If is something is to keep in mind, if use Anduin to Go, made with Rufus , the USB device stick or ssd , need to be clear, do not overwrite an old instalation , because the old boot UEFI is not erased properly. I think is generally true for all kind of dd install.
• My solution , very fast and for non technical people is to start writing the stick as ISO ( this will entirely destroy old partitions), after disk is created can stop copying iso files and then write again the USB in a dd mode. Using this method all ok. Of course exist other methods to completely clear the device but not so fast lol.

At a glance is ok, it worked, installed all in need, sometime the disk write / read is kept 100% causing the system to be slower , i dont know from where is this, htop show nothing interesting. Maybe is a driver or even kernel itself. But after few seconds 2-5 sec , all return to normal and is ok. And i see sometimes having packages using your new apt is quite slower than normal, but maybe is not the system fault, repositories are in a slow server or vey far .

But is ok , is still a beta, an astonishing work, thank you, after few updates i am confident all will work like a charm !

VALENTIN

[Anduin2017]

I truly appreciate you taking the time to test the Beta and share your findings!

I completely understand the frustration with the residual UEFI partitions on the USB drive. You are absolutely right that leftover boot data can cause conflicts. To avoid this entirely, I highly recommend using the native dd command if you are flashing from a Linux machine, or strictly selecting the "DD Image mode" when prompted by Rufus on Windows. This performs a sector-by-sector write and ensures the drive is perfectly clean.

Regarding the brief 100% disk I/O spikes, this might be related to background caching or kernel indexing during the early stages of the installation, but we will definitely keep an eye on it! Please send more data with sudo apt install pcp && sudo dstat.

As for the slow package downloads, this is likely a mirror routing issue depending on your physical location. You can easily fix this by switching to a faster mirror closer to you. Please check out our guide on how to do this here:

https://docs.anduinos.com/Install/Select-Best-Apt-Source.html

[VVDAOVV]

sudo apt install pcp && sudo dstat
But it works better after each reboot lol , maybe you can see something in these screenshoots


Have a good day !

[VVDAOVV]

After upgrading to Beta3 all these problems solved by default.

[AgentJ23-PL]

I've been using version 1.4.2 as my home server since the beginning of the year (audiobookshelf, Samba, transmission, pihole, nextcloud,cloudflared). As part of the optimization process, I removed all graphical shell components and services and now use only the terminal to manage my AnduinOS version. I've also removed as much of the built-in Linux services as possible. Will it be possible to safely deploy version 2.0 using the standard installer, or should I expect problems, or will there be a different upgrade path?

[Anduin2017]

Yes, we will be releasing a dedicated 1.4 to 2.0 upgrade script in the near future. I can promise you that the upgrade process itself will be safe and shouldn't break your existing server configurations or data.

However, I must give you a fair warning about one potentially disastrous consequence for your specific setup:
Because our upgrade script is designed to be universal, it assumes the user is running a standard desktop environment. During the upgrade process, the script will forcefully pull in the latest anduinos-desktop metapackage and its dependencies. This means that all the graphical shell components and GUI services you meticulously purged will magically reappear once the upgrade is complete.

You won't lose your Nextcloud or Pi-hole setups, but you will definitely need to run your purge commands again to strip the GUI back out and return to a purely headless state after the upgrade finishes. Aside from that cleanup step, you shouldn't expect any major problems!

[AgentJ23-PL]

Thank you very much !!! I'm waiting for production version of 2.0 :)
By the way, thank you very much for preparing a great distribution, which I really like.

[lxbs]

[Anduin2017]

Okay will be released on.

[pvdveen]

I had installed beta 3 and wanted to build it myself too, but in beta 3 the git and make programs are missing

After install these i got it running, but after some time it resets the ibus (??) and than freezes the computer

[Anduin2017]

Ibus freeze is a known issue. Will be fixed in beta 4.

[Anduin2017]

Fix commit: AiursoftWeb/AnduinOS-Packages@2ff9ae1