0016: Arch Linux base, in snapshots

Context

the desktop needs current GPU drivers (Mesa, NVIDIA, virtio-gpu in VMs), native Steam and Proton, and a current kernel. A rolling base breaks the "it just works" promise; a frozen base ages.

Decision

• Base = Arch Linux packages pinned to one Arch Linux Archive date per WolOS release (wolos-iso/profile/snapshot). pacman reads only that date (Server = https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/<date>/$repo/os/$arch). A WolOS update moves the whole system to a newer tested date; nothing rolls in between.
• Kernel = only linux-wolos, published through the [wolos] channel: github.com/wonderlandos/linux (current stable, pinned ref) + kernel/conf/wolos.config fragment + the patches in kernel/linux/patches/. Other or modified kernels may be installed with pacman; they get their own boot entry, linux-wolos stays the default.
• A/B slots: btrfs root subvolumes @wolos-a / @wolos-b (writable, so pacman works), shared @home, @var. An update snapshots the running root into the other slot, moves its pacman.conf to the new release date, runs pacman -Syu there and boots it next; user-installed packages carry over. systemd-boot entries with boot counting (+3) fall back to the previous slot, which is also the restore point. A failed update deletes the new slot.
• Init = systemd. rc.d scripts become units in files/usr/lib/systemd/ (wolos repo). sysctl/pciconf/kld readers become /proc, /sys, lspci, modprobe.
• Build: wolos-iso/build.sh = mkarchiso profile wolos-iso/profile/ (live + installer ISO) on any Arch host or archlinux container. VM tests use QEMU virtio-gpu, so the compositor runs in the VM.
• Packages: pacman stays the package manager, used directly; wol controls only the pinned pacman.conf, release updates and .wol app metadata. .wol = signed pacman package + WolOS metadata; [wolos] repo (apps, kernel, system) beside the pinned Arch repos; each release has a signed manifest (snapshot date, repo revision, image + sha256).
• Steam and Proton are native packages (multilib). NVIDIA uses nvidia-open.

Consequences

FreeBSD-only code (ZFS boot environments, pf, bsdinstall, pkg, wolos_qos kmod) is replaced; Host::is_freebsd paths stay compiling only while removed slice by slice. Firewall = nftables. Scheduler QoS moves to a sched_ext scheduler (follow-up).