Docs
Documentation
This is the central documentation index for Vertex Linux. Individual topics live as
subpages under /docs. The current articles cover package management and
base system tooling.
This index only links to documentation that already exists. As more project docs are added, they can be grouped here without changing the main navigation.
Available articles
| Article | Topic | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Depot | Package management | Using Depot day to day, plus creating specs manually or with depot make-spec. |
| mkinitramfs | Early boot | Generating initramfs images, selecting backends and modules, and understanding the bundled init program. |
| ca-certs | Trust store management | Managing trust anchors, extracted CA bundles, system symlink layouts, and Mozilla certdata conversion. |
| vx | Multicall userland tools | BSD-oriented multicall utility bundling tools such as grep, find, diff, patch, gzip, and xargs into one binary. |
Reference-style documentation for installing, building, updating, querying, and writing Depot specs.
Early boot mkinitramfsReference-style documentation for building initramfs images, choosing tool backends, and understanding the bundled init implementation.
Trust store management ca-certsReference-style documentation for trust anchors, extracted bundles, SSL symlink sync, and Mozilla trust-source conversion.
Multicall userland tools vxReference-style documentation for the multicall invocation model, included applets, build flow, and BSD-flavored behavior.