Open
Open source.
Room to make it yours.
verse OS
Open · Speed · Human
An open, human-centered operating system.
Built for speed, simplicity, and freedom.
Speed
Built toward a lighter,
more responsive desktop.
Human
Designed around people,
not complexity.
Community
A shared project.
A future built together.
A familiar feeling. A new direction.
More room for
what matters.
Remember when a computer felt simple? Verse OS carries that spirit forward: a clear desktop, direct interactions, and software that leaves room for your ideas.
Built on Haiku and developed on the Milk-V Pioneer, Verse explores what a personal operating system can be on RISC-V—with local AI as part of the experience, not a distant service.
Explore the sourceBuilt in the open
A real desktop.
An ongoing experiment.
RISC-V, on real hardware
The Pioneer port has reached a working desktop with 64 CPUs, keyboard, mouse, networking, and SSD boot support.
AI that stays with you
A native chat app connects to a resident llama.cpp service and a local Qwen model. Desktop actions ask for your permission.
Space to keep improving
Performance, reliability, and packaging are active work. Tenstorrent accelerator support is being investigated—not yet supported.
For the curious
Start with the source.
Verse OS is an experimental distribution in development, not a finished general-purpose release. A ready-to-install public image is not offered here yet.
Want to build or follow along? The Pioneer repository contains the source, build tools, and development notes. Use separate test storage and keep a recovery system available.
Made better, together
A little curiosity goes a long way.
Read the code. Share what you find. Help shape a more personal kind of computing.
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