--- title: Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro... description: Ikey Doherty has announced Pavee OS, a new daily-driver desktop Linux distribution built on top of his Barney distro-building tooling. Doherty, known for Solus... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pavee-os-ikey-doherty-s-new-daily-driver-desktop-distro-being-built-atop-barney-bxw6fynxm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro Being Built Atop Barney | daily.dev og:description: Ikey Doherty has announced Pavee OS, a new daily-driver desktop Linux distribution built on top of his Barney distro-building tooling. 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He says Pavee OS will be his 'opinionated daily-driver desktop, built on top of barney, bny-base and any other layers' the project produces. Doherty wants to invert his past approach: build reusable infrastructure first, then layer his own distro preferences on top. Development progress can be tracked via its GitHub repository. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Pavee OS and who is building it? Pavee OS is a new daily-driver desktop Linux distribution announced by Ikey Doherty, previously known for creating Solus and Serpent OS. It is being built on top of Barney, Doherty's distro-building tooling project, along with a component called bny-base. Doherty describes it as his 'opinionated daily-driver desktop' meant to demonstrate his reusable distro infrastructure in practice. _Linux users tracking new distro projects can follow releases like this through daily.dev._ ### What is Barney in the context of Ikey Doherty's Linux projects? Barney is a distro-building tooling project announced by Ikey Doherty as a showcase for how to properly build a modern Linux distribution. Doherty intends it as reusable, modern ecosystem infrastructure that other projects can share without inheriting one distro's specific design decisions. Pavee OS is his own opinionated desktop distro built on top of this Barney tooling. _Developers evaluating emerging distro tooling can keep up with projects like Barney via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro](https://daily.dev/posts/ikey-doherty-plans-to-show-how-to-properly-build-a-modern-linux-distro-c9tt8plbz) · Phoronix · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning](https://daily.dev/posts/obsidianos-review-a-new-innovative-linux-distro-built-around-a-b-partitioning-bchgkhbfk) · It's Foss · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pavee-os-ikey-doherty-s-new-daily-driver-desktop-distro-being-built-atop-barney-bxw6fynxm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro Being Built Atop Barney","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pavee-os-ikey-doherty-s-new-daily-driver-desktop-distro-being-built-atop-barney-bxw6fynxm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pavee-os-ikey-doherty-s-new-daily-driver-desktop-distro-being-built-atop-barney-bxw6fynxm"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T13:23:45.710Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T13:24:19.342Z","description":"Ikey Doherty has announced Pavee OS, a new daily-driver desktop Linux distribution built on top of his Barney distro-building tooling. 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