Getting newOS4

One public, read-only repository. Clone it on Linux, macOS, Windows or Android — no account, no key, no token.

git clone https://newos.webx11.duckdns.org/newos4.git

Linux

# Debian / Ubuntu / Mint
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git

# Fedora / RHEL
sudo dnf install -y git

# Arch / Manjaro
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm git

# Alpine
sudo apk add git

git --version                       # 2.30 or newer is fine
git clone https://newos.webx11.duckdns.org/newos4.git
cd newos4
git log --oneline -3
git describe --tags                 # v4.6.146

A distro without CA roots fails with SSL certificate problem: install ca-certificates. Behind a proxy, add git config --global http.proxy http://host:port.

macOS

xcode-select --install      # ships git (Apple's build is older but sufficient)
# or: brew install git

git clone https://newos.webx11.duckdns.org/newos4.git
cd newos4 && git describe --tags

If git opens a licence prompt, run sudo xcodebuild -license accept once. The clone lands in your working directory; nothing is installed system-wide.

Windows

winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget

# new PowerShell window, then:
git clone https://newos.webx11.duckdns.org/newos4.git
cd newos4
git log --oneline -3

Without winget: git-scm.com/download/win → “Git for Windows” → next-next-finish → “Git Bash” gives you the same commands as above. WSL2 works too and needs no special handling.

Android — Termux

Termux is a real Linux userland, so the Linux instructions apply almost unchanged. Three things differ:

pkg update && pkg upgrade -y
pkg install -y git ca-certificates
git --version

cd ~
git clone https://newos.webx11.duckdns.org/newos4.git
cd newos4
git log --oneline -3

termux-wake-lock          # stops Android from freezing the download
git clone --depth 1 https://newos.webx11.duckdns.org/newos4.git
termux-wake-unlock

Editing on the phone: pkg install nano or pkg install micro, then nano newos4/README.md. Termux's own git is a standard build, so git status, git diff and git log behave exactly as on a laptop.

iPhone / iPad

a-Shell (free) includes git: run the same git clone command. Working Copy is a GUI alternative that can also clone a public HTTPS repository without an account.

Updating later

cd newos4
git pull --ff-only          # the mirror only ever fast-forwards
git describe --tags         # new tag appears when a release is published

The mirror is refreshed daily at 05:50 UTC and a new release tag is minted on each publish. Nothing you do locally can be pushed back — see below.

Verifying what you got

git -C newos4 rev-parse --short HEAD      # tip commit
git -C newos4 tag -l                      # v4.6.146
git -C newos4 ls-files | wc -l            # every published file
git -C newos4 rev-list --count HEAD       # every published commit
du -sh newos4/.git                      # a few MB

Scope, and why you cannot push

The mirror is generated from a private monorepo by admin/scripts/publish-newos4.py: it keeps only the spaces/newos4 subtree, removes private paths (data/, backups/, .hermes/, credentials, profile JSON) from every commit, and scans all blobs for secrets before anything is pushed. That is why the history starts where it does: earlier private commits were never published.

Pushing is disabled at three levels — no git-receive-pack route on the vhost, 403 on the advertisement, and http.receivepack=false in the repository. If you want to report a bug or ask for a change, email darkmotox11@gmail.com; do not send patches to a repository that cannot accept them.

Troubleshooting