Native Apple Silicon virtualization
Built on Apple's Virtualization Framework. No emulation. No legacy overhead. The foundation Linux on Mac deserves.
A complete Linux system that fits in megabytes, not gigabytes. Custom kernel. Native ext4 on macOS. From download to shell in under 30 seconds.
$ curl -fsSL https://origon.ai/hylyx/install.sh | bashTiny binary
Apple Silicon
Open Source
No ISO downloads. No boot menus. No waiting. Download to working shell in under 30 seconds — running on Apple's native Virtualization Framework.
Built on Apple's Virtualization Framework. No emulation. No legacy overhead. The foundation Linux on Mac deserves.
700 lines of configuration — down from 10,000. No bootloader. No initramfs. Every line intentional.
Ubuntu — 78 MB • Fedora — 65 MB • Alpine — 13 MB. No features removed. Just everything unnecessary stripped away.
Create and resize Linux disk images directly on Mac. Something that shouldn't be possible — we made it possible.
SSH keys inject automatically. From download to working shell: under 30 seconds.
Test against actual production environments. Not abstracted approximations. Not "Linux-like." Linux.
Development. Testing. Power-constrained deployments. Nothing matches Apple Silicon's performance per watt.
No black boxes. No magic. From kernel choices to tooling — everything visible. Understand it. Improve it.
[Quick start]
Get up and running in under a minute. Install, connect, and start working with Linux VMs instantly.
SSH key auto-detected from ~/.ssh.
Works with Ubuntu, Alpine, and Fedora.
This was the spirit when Linus wrote the first kernel. We're bringing it back.
$ curl -fsSL https://origon.ai/hylyx/install.sh | bashHylyx is an independent open-source project created by the Origon engineering team. It is maintained separately and is not part of the Origon platform.
It reflects our engineering and design taste.