Rime 2026.10.08.5

Install Rime OS from Windows, beside Windows, without a USB stick

Rime OS can be installed from Windows without a USB stick: shrink C:, run the Rime installer for Windows, pick the space and restart. Rime gets its own boot partition, and Windows is left as it was.

Released
Channel
edge
OS revision
f8a3d561f
Shell revision
4aa938a0

Highlights

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Install Rime OS from Windows, beside Windows, without a USB stick

Rime OS can be installed from Windows without a USB stick: shrink C:, run the Rime installer for Windows, pick the space and restart. Rime gets its own boot partition, and Windows is left as it was.

rime-os #97

Known issues

No known release-blocking issues.

Provenance

Release
2026.10.08.5
Image digest
sha256:c21af73da35d92a45bcf300627b6668e381754a7b830ab57577602703673311b
Channel
edge
Released
2026-10-08T08:25:18.000Z

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: 2026.10.08.5.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 reboot

On 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.