Mentalnet GNU/Linux 6.12.114-mentalnet-intel32 tty1 · 90s beige towers never die — they server

Download

user@mentalnet:~$ ls -lh isos/

-rw-r--r--  user  ~249 MB  isos/mentalnet-gnulinux-intel32-R1-Ochatime.iso

R1 "Ochatime" — Current

FileSizeDownload
mentalnet-gnulinux-intel32-R1-Ochatime.iso ~249 MB ISO

The ISO is a bootable live CD with the hard disk installer mentalnet-install built in. Burn it as an El Torito bootable CD for machines with IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives, or attach it directly as a CD-ROM image in QEMU/86Box.

Verify before you burn

Verify integrity — check the SHA256 below before writing this ISO to any disk or media by storing the below SHA256 checksum into a text file along with your downloaded ISO. If it has not been tampered with, it will print an "OK" message along with the relative path to your ISO file.

The ISOs SHA-256 Checksum

You can also grab the checksum file itself: isosha256sum.txt.

3221c0a00c91d05aa2cf1aafc622333cb058c023cb2c8e2414e00973325ccc0d  mentalnet-gnulinux-intel32-R1-Ochatime.iso

Verifying Checksum

user@mentalnet:~$ sha256sum -c isosha256sum.txt
mentalnet-gnulinux-intel32-R1-Ochatime.iso: OK

Release history

user@mentalnet:~$ cat RELEASES.md

ReleaseCodenameSongNotes
R1MesmerizerMesmerizer — 32ki (Hatsune Miku & Kasane Teto)Initial release
R1FirstStormChūlán ~First Storm~ (初嵐~First Storm~) — DECO*27Swap-free installer, true i586 support, terminal/input hardening, interrupt-storm fixes
R1LoveParaラブパラ (Love Para) — DECO*27 feat. Hatsune Mikuapp-server stack (PHP/Ruby/Perl, php-fpm, lighttpd /proxy/ → port 1337), tcc on-target C dev with glibc headers, socat, gesftpserver, SiS 900 / VIA Rhine / Tigon3 NICs, fastfetch, nano, en_US.UTF-8 locale
R1StreamingHeartStreaming Heart — DECO*27 feat. Hatsune Mikurunmain.o for tcc script-style C execution, tmux, custom bash prompt
R1OchatimeOchatime — 23.exeCurrent — Linux 6.12.114 (PwnEscape / CVE-2026-99999 fix), PHP 8.3.36 security update (php2shell, CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619), compromised eMudhra (emSign) roots removed, GNU Wget 1.25.0 with HTTPS/OpenSSL (BusyBox wget remains available via busybox wget)

Versioning: major releases bump the R<n> number (R1, R2, …); minor releases keep the R<n> base and use the codename as the minor version. All codenames come from Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku or Kasane Teto songs.

Get the source

user@mentalnet:~$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/MARKMENTAL/mentalnet-gnu-linux (GitHub)
mirror  https://mentalnet.xyz/forgejo-v2/markmental/mentalnet-gnu-linux (Forgejo, self-hosted)

The repository is a Buildroot 2025.02.17 overlay, not a full fork — clone pristine Buildroot and copy the Mentalnet files on top. See the docs for the build recipe.