Valux documentation

Valux is the broader operating-system research effort connecting Core, Rubian, Kestowv, Arcturus and Valen. It combines the programmable work surface, command environment and systems foundation into one OS, with Valen as the AI. Its scope includes personal and enterprise computing, with reliability and management informed by Arcturus.

Arcturus is the reliability and management product, built on Rubian and Kestowv. It spans individual machines, home clusters and fleets, with a predictive-maintenance scope extending to the infrastructure around them: power, cooling, networking and facility systems across a data center.

Operating approach#

The product direction emphasizes useful work with less unnecessary system activity and a structure that people and agents can return to. In the current Rubian environment, that approach is visible in startup discovery, organized file views, reusable command results, named projects and session records. Those component behaviors are documented in Startup, discovery and recall and Rubian capabilities.

Selected work from Core is intended to contribute to Valux's final interface. That interface and the integrated OS remain in development; hardware support, commercial terms and release-specific operation will be defined with the supplied product release.

Components#

The underlying products have their own documentation because they can be evaluated at different stages. Valux describes the broader operating-system research; Arcturus provides the reliability and management product across personal and enterprise environments.

Single PC, home cluster and data center#

For a single PC, Valux's focus is the personal operating environment: the work a person performs and the agents participating in it. For a home cluster, the scope extends across the person's own collection of machines. Arcturus provides the reliability and management layer across individual machines, home clusters, fleets and data-center environments.

The Valux research includes connecting the operating environment to Arcturus reliability and predictive-maintenance work. The objective is to help the owner identify developing hardware problems and plan maintenance using the observations available from the machine. The supported hardware, diagnostic inputs and predictive capability will depend on the qualified release. The current public machine demonstration is an illustration of investigation and incident work, not proof of a deployed predictive model.

See Predictive maintenance scope for the relationship between machine-level reliability and the wider data-center dependencies Arcturus addresses.

Installation, upgrades, supported hardware and cluster administration depend on the corresponding release and are not yet published as a general Valux distribution manual.

The integrated operating system remains in development. The public Core and Arcturus interfaces are ways to examine product behavior and workflow; the Rubian and Kestowv evaluation environments provide access to defined operating capabilities.

Evaluate the available components#

Start with the task you need the system to perform. For command composition and agent-workspace inspection, use the Rubian manual. For supervised services and repeatable workload evaluation, use the Kestowv pilot manual. For data-center investigation, use Arcturus documentation. The Core prototype guides are available for exploring the experimental browser interface.

An evaluation should name the component, supplied build, target environment and expected result. That makes the finding useful as the integrated system develops. A measured result from one component cannot establish compatibility, performance or recovery behavior for the complete operating system.

Participate in development#

Use the access page or contact Valen Systems to describe a proposed evaluation. Useful detail includes the hardware, applications, operator responsibilities, repeated tasks and recovery requirements. Keep confidential infrastructure details out of an initial public inquiry; the evaluation process can establish an appropriate exchange for them.