NAVI // ROLLING CHANNEL

ride the rolling edge.

eiri is navi's rolling channel — the coherence release, landing frequently. The Debian model, the navi way: mika stays stable on careful release tags while eiri moves fast on the branch. Same machine, same files, your call which train you're on.

HOW IT WORKS

one system, two channels

navi-update knows two channels. stable follows release tags — that's mika, the dependable foundation. eiri tracks the eiri branch head and rolls forward whenever new work lands; the updater remembers the deployed commit and only moves when there's something new.

Switching channels asks first, then pins your choice — your customizations are preserved in both directions, because the updater redeploys around them, never over them.

And the loop closes over time: features that prove themselves on eiri graduate down into mika's stable releases. Rolling is the greenhouse; stable is the harvest.

JOIN EIRI

two ways in

Aswitch in place

Already on mika? No re-install, no lost files. One command opts you into the rolling channel:

navi-update --channel eiri

It asks first, pins /etc/navi/channel, and pulls the latest eiri.

Bfresh bench ISO

Starting from bare metal? Grab a bench ISO cut straight from the eiri branch and install it like any navi release.

eiri bench ISOs ↗

Eiri ISOs are date-stamped snapshots, not versions — navi 2 eiri — 18 September 2026. mika gets version numbers; eiri gets dates. A date tells you exactly how fresh your snapshot is.

Fresh installs carry the rolling updater from the start.

WHAT'S LANDING

the coherence release, in motion

Coherence through ownership — one nightshadeNeon design language flowing through every layer xvoidsx builds:

navi mods — waybar-driven clickable modules (networking, calendar, audio, bluetooth) launching small floating TUIs
Hey Lain! — a local voice assistant (faster-whisper + piper-tts, no cloud) that operates the desktop
nightshadeNeon as a system — bubbletea/lipgloss TUIs, GTK theming, and web, all speaking one visual language
enhance, don't replace — mods sharpen the daily surface without taking Linux away; choice is preserved

ROLLING NOW

naviApps grows an agents shelf

navi is unapologetically agent-native, and the store finally looks the part. The catalog ships four shelves now:

agents — 14 of them. Ollama, OpenCode, OMP, Goose and Herdr come preinstalled; Hermes lands as a default soon. Muse Code (Meta's harness for Muse models), Codex, Kimi Code, Aider, Pi, Crush, OpenClaw and Kilo Code fill out the shelf.
native apps — everything navi-extras installs, surfaced in the store: Chrome, Firefox Nightly, Brave Nightly, ani-cli, the Charm toolkit, cliamp, Telegram, Element.
webapps — now including Cloudflare, next to the from xvoidsx collection.

Still a local page, still offline-first, still one install command per card.

SEEN ON EIRI

fresh from the rolling edge

Real screenshots from the eiri bench machine — the mods and the voice assistant, as they look right now.

the navi-networking mod running a live speed test in a floating terminal — **navi-networking**wifi, dns and a live speed test in one floating TUI

the navi-audio mod with playback, recording, outputs, inputs and config tabs — **navi-audio**pavucontrol parity, floating — “the Wired is silent, listening”

the navi-calendar mod with a September 2026 month view and a Friday agenda — **navi-calendar**month view and agenda, popped from the waybar clock

Hey Lain! voice assistant launching chromium from a spoken command — **hey lain!**“open chromium” — heard on the machine, launched instantly

THE HONEST FINE PRINT

moves fast, occasionally breaks

Rolling means rolling. Eiri gets the newest work the day it lands — and occasionally the newest bugs, too. Best on a bench machine or a secondary install, not the one you need for Monday morning.

Changed your mind? One command takes you home:

navi-update --channel stable

Back on mika's release tags, customizations intact. No re-install either way — that's the whole point.