Rime 2026.10.04
Rime OS installs on a 12 GB disk
Rime OS now installs on a 12 GB disk. The network installer streams the system straight onto the disk you install to and stores it compressed, so it no longer needs a spare drive or tens of gigabytes of free space; the installed system takes about 8 GB.
Highlights
Rime OS installs on a 12 GB disk
Rime OS now installs on a 12 GB disk. The network installer streams the system straight onto the disk you install to and stores it compressed, so it no longer needs a spare drive or tens of gigabytes of free space; the installed system takes about 8 GB.
Known issues
No known release-blocking issues.
Provenance
- Release
- 2026.10.04
- OS revision
- 93a98c5204daca6d9d23154d90255f69a3fe83ab
- Shell revision
- 7bbc05f6d0487562ef5c1ca1e4aec9dca70b48c9
- Image digest
- sha256:47eb3beb12eed40ec09b94885e877763e7b757f2584e8d20326024895f4f6470
- Channel
- edge
- Released
- 2026-10-04T12:32:39.000Z
Published to every image tag (apex, daily, edge, gaming-mesa, gaming-nvidia, rime). All of them are the edge channel today. This page explains the release; it is never consulted by an update. What a machine installs is decided by the registry and the image signature (see Security). Machine-readable: 2026.10.04.json.
If something is wrong
Go back to the image you were running before this one. It becomes the default at the next boot; your files and settings stay as they are.
sudo rime rollback && sudo systemctl rebootOn an APEX-named system the command is apex. You can also pick the previous entry in the boot menu. More in Rolling back and Recovery.