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LimenGate is in alpha (pre-beta). Your telemetry is secure — zero data is collected, transmitted, or stored remotely. At the architectural level, all sovereign protections are active. However, technical or functional issues may be present as we build toward beta.

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LimenGate Alpha 0.7.4 for Linux

x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu · AppImage

Alpha Preview — for sovereign builders & FlameNet community

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Phases complete: Gate · Sovereignty · The Wall · Consent · Transparency · Intelligence · Voice · FlameNet Mesh · Child AI Guardian
254 tests · 13 crates · Zero warnings · Zero telemetry

# Make executable and run
chmod +x LimenGate-*-x86_64.AppImage
./LimenGate-*-x86_64.AppImage

# If it fails to launch:
sudo apt install libfuse2
SHA3-512
0bf76e905cc401ee1eb0cdc37cf70ced55fc39a2bb00bfdcbd98c24e154ae4a7bacd8ef2bc677c5479c22e9d0f6094197c8a0894f5058c3586db62cd0e2b9a85

Chromebook (Linux)

x86_64 · Crostini Linux · One-Command Setup

Enable Linux in Settings → Advanced → Developers, then open the Linux terminal.

curl -sSL https://limengate.quest/chromebook-setup.sh | bash

Installs dependencies, downloads the AppImage, verifies the hash, and creates a desktop launcher. LimenGate will appear in your app drawer.

Requires x86_64 (Intel/AMD) Chromebook. ARM Chromebooks: build from source below.

Windows (via Podman)

x86_64 · Podman Desktop + WSL2 · Rootless Container

Runs LimenGate in a sovereign container — no Docker daemon, no root required.

Step 1: Install Podman Desktop & an X server (VcXsrv or WSLg on Win11)

Step 2: Open PowerShell and run:

# Download and run the setup script
Invoke-WebRequest https://limengate.quest/windows-podman-setup.ps1 -OutFile setup.ps1
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File setup.ps1

Clones from FlameHub, builds the container, creates a desktop shortcut. First build takes 5–15 minutes. Data persists in the limengate-data volume.

macOS 12+ (via Podman)

Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) & Intel · Podman + XQuartz

Runs LimenGate in a Podman container with XQuartz display forwarding.

Prerequisites:

Run in Terminal:

curl -fsSL https://limengate.quest/macos-setup.sh | bash

Or review first: curl -fsSL https://limengate.quest/macos-setup.sh -o setup.sh && less setup.sh && bash setup.sh

Build from Source

# 1. Install system dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libssl-dev \
  libasound2-dev libespeak-ng-dev libfontconfig1-dev \
  libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libx11-dev libxcb-render0-dev \
  libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libclang-dev git curl

# 2. Install Rust via rustup (if not already installed)
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

# 3. Set Rust toolchain (1.92.0 stable)
rustup default 1.92.0

# 4. Clone from FlameHub
git clone https://flamehub.app/git/limen-gate.git
cd limen-gate

# 5. Build (release mode)
cargo build --release --bin limengate

# 6. Run (Servo needs 32MB stack for CSS-heavy pages)
RUST_MIN_STACK=33554432 cargo run --release --bin limengate

Verify Your Build

LimenGate includes SHA3-512 self-hashing. After building, you can verify the binary matches the published hash.

# Option 1: Use LimenGate's built-in verification
# Go to Help > About in the browser to see the self-hash

# Option 2: External verification with sha3sum
pip install pysha3  # or use any SHA3-512 tool
sha3sum -a 512 target/release/limengate

# Option 3: OpenSSL (3.0+)
openssl dgst -sha3-512 target/release/limengate

# Compare with the hash published on /provenance

Why SHA3-512?

SHA-2 is still considered secure, but LimenGate uses SHA3-512 (Keccak) because it's a completely independent design from SHA-2. If a weakness is ever found in SHA-2's Merkle-Damgård construction, SHA-3's sponge construction remains unaffected. Defense in depth extends to our hash functions.

Reproducible Builds

A shell.nix environment is included for Nix users. This pins all build dependencies to exact versions, ensuring you can reproduce the exact same binary from the same source commit.

nix-shell
cargo build --release --bin limengate

Offline Data

Download offline databases for the Etymology Reclaimer. Place in ~/.limen/etymology/ or let LimenGate auto-import on first run.

Etymology DB

Curated offline etymology database. Historical word lineages with attestation sources.

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FlameNet Lexicon Seed

FlameNet-native vocabulary: flamenet, emberglass, guardian, and other sovereign terms.

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