Linux Development Environment

WEFT OS is developed on a Windows workstation, but the authoritative runtime target for system work is a Linux VM or QEMU guest.

Baseline target

Use a recent Linux distribution with:

systemd as PID 1
Wayland-capable graphics stack
Mesa userspace drivers
a recent Rust toolchain compatible with rust-toolchain.toml

Purpose of the guest environment

The guest is the validation target for:

systemd service assumptions
Wayland compositor bring-up
Servo Wayland client behavior
Wasmtime runtime supervision assumptions

Host versus target boundary

The Windows host is acceptable for editing, documentation, and workspace validation.

The Linux guest is authoritative for:

graphics stack behavior
compositor and shell startup order
systemd unit behavior
process supervision assumptions tied to Linux userspace

Minimum guest setup goals for the next implementation wave

install Rust toolchain matching rust-toolchain.toml
install build essentials needed by Rust crates in this repository
confirm cargo fmt, cargo clippy, and cargo test run successfully
prepare a repeatable guest definition for future compositor and shell work

Current status

This repository does not yet automate guest provisioning. That work should begin only after the foundational workspace and design documents are stable.

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