SlashBuilder
The open-source organization behind Hearth, BenixOS, and bitchain. Apache-2.0 licensed, sells nothing, forkable by anyone — including us.
Three peer projects. None is subordinate to the others — the Apache Software Foundation hosting Kafka and Spark side by side, not a company with a flagship and an afterthought.
hearth
The open protocol for distributed personal resources. 9P-inspired — Plan 9's addressing model, reapplied to a household instead of a data center. Capability-grants instead of accounts; a thin wire contract instead of a platform.
benixos
The operating system built around Hearth. A spiritual successor to two lineages: Plan 9 — Bell Labs' Unix successor, "Unix 2.0" — for its distributed-systems bones, and BeOS for its Kit-model architecture. Runs on Thunderhead-class hardware, the general term for a home-server appliance — the way "NAS" or "router" name a category, not a product.
bitchain
A content-addressed storage kit — an embeddable Rust library, CLI, and desktop inspection tool. BLAKE3 hashing and content-defined chunking give cryptographic integrity: identity is bound to the bytes, not to a location or custodian. Consumed by Quickring, BenixOS, and other downstream projects that need immutable, verifiable storage.
Quickring is the commercial layer built on what SlashBuilder ships — software, services, and hardware, sold under its own name. Nothing here requires it.
- github.com/slash-builder — every repository, every open issue.
- Apache-2.0 on code, CC-BY-4.0 on specs and docs.
- Contributions via DCO sign-off (
git commit -s). No CLA. Contributor Covenant 2.1.