<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>🌱 Mere Linux</title><link>https://merelinux.org/</link><description>Recent content on 🌱 Mere Linux</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://merelinux.org/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Tour of Mere</title><link>https://merelinux.org/tour/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://merelinux.org/tour/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;mere&lt;/code&gt; is a package manager for &lt;a href="https://merelinux.org"&gt;Mere Linux&lt;/a&gt; that
combines ideas from Nix — content-addressed storage, immutable packages,
atomic upgrades and rollbacks — with the simplicity of traditional Unix
conventions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This page walks through the main concepts and shows what they look like in
practice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-store"&gt;The Store&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every package lives in &lt;code&gt;/mere/store&lt;/code&gt; under a path derived from the hash of its
contents. Because identity comes from content, store objects are immutable:
changing anything produces a new hash and a new path.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Road Ahead</title><link>https://merelinux.org/posts/roadmap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://merelinux.org/posts/roadmap/</guid><description>Where Mere Linux is headed and how to follow along</description></item><item><title>One File</title><link>https://merelinux.org/posts/one-file/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://merelinux.org/posts/one-file/</guid><description>What if your lockfile and your package list were the same file?</description></item><item><title>A New Package Manager</title><link>https://merelinux.org/posts/new-pm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://merelinux.org/posts/new-pm/</guid><description>Status update and new package manager announcement</description></item></channel></rss>