Moon Unit Linux | linuxlive Library

Built 16 Oct 2026

Installable
Secure Boot

Moon Unit Linux on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: the GNOME desktop, as the boot test saw it — The desktop as the boot test saw it, GNOME on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

Download: 3.3 GiB
To the desktop: 27 s
Apps: 3
Last built: October 16, 2026

Get Moon Unit Linux 0.3

Version: 0.3 (build 2026.10.16.18), built with linuxlive v0.4.2
SHA-256: 176565e15c67a62659b3c701ae036ca3cc02473b8f0c7380d3844975fee08dc2

New to this? How to check the file, put it on a USB stick and boot it.

Installable. Start it, then choose Install Moon Unit Linux on the desktop or in the boot menu. The installer erases one whole disk. How it works.

Inside: every package and its source. Getting the source code.

Remix in the Workshop Start your own distro from this one: change anything, then build it.

Boot-tested

Booted in QEMU on October 16, 2026 and rebuilt every month with the newest packages. Times are from power-on to a working system. See the test run.

UEFI from USB, to the desktop26.5 s
UEFI with Secure Boot, from CD22.5 s
UEFI from CD20.5 s
BIOS from CD18.5 s
BIOS from USB20.5 s
Installed to a disk, then started from it

What is inside

My niece has a new cat and I call it Moon Unit. It now has its own Linux distro.

Apps from Flathub

Firefoxorg.mozilla.firefox
LibreOfficeorg.libreoffice.LibreOffice
VLCorg.videolan.VLC

Desktop and base

GNOME on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Installed systems update with apt like any Ubuntu.

The spec

Everything above comes from these lines. Paste them into the linuxlive-distro template to build your own copy, then change what you like.

# Moon Unit Linux, made with the linuxlive.com wizard on 2026-10-13.
# Build it in your own GitHub from https://github.com/Eric-Ness/linuxlive-distro (see README.md)
schema_version: 1
name: "Moon Unit Linux"
version: "0.3"
base: ubuntu
desktop: gnome
apps:
  - firefox
  - libreoffice
  - vlc
branding:
  wallpaper: assets/wallpaper.png
  logo: assets/logo.png
  accent_color: "#e0661f"

My own work Licence: MIT. Not made or endorsed by Canonical or the Fedora Project.

Version history

Every change to this distro in the Library repository, newest first.

v0.3Update Moon Unit LinuxOctober 16, 2026 · pull request #8
v0.2Add Moon Unit LinuxOctober 13, 2026 · pull request #2

Built with linuxlive

Show where Moon Unit Linux came from: paste this into its README, or any Markdown page.

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