On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 08:22:18AM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > > Choose an OS which has a small kernel and other minimal software > > that you need. (OpenBSD is the only one I can see here today) > > suckless is strongly Linux-oriented - musl, ubase, smdev, nldev, nlmon >
No, there are also many other tools (dwm, dmenu, st) etc which are not Linux-oriented. The userbase is probably mostly Linux-oriented, but that's something different. musl is a nice project (imho) but not part of suckless.org itself. > I wonder if it would make sense to make a little Linux kernel. > Everything that is unnecessary could be deleted. And yes, this > sounds controversial, but for example: > > https://github.com/michaelforney/linux-headers/tree/master/scripts > > Daniel > > > > > On 9 Apr 2021, at 14:54, Sagar Acharya <sagaracha...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > > > I recently wrote this article > > > > https://designman.org/sagaracharya/blog/trusting_no_one > > > > being absolutely unaware about suckless and this was brought to my > > attention. > > > > Suckless's philosophy is hands down amazing and crucial wrt computer > > security. Although I'd like to point out 1 aspect. Why does suckless target > > very sophisticated users? If it shuns trying to go after elitist users, it > > can improve computer security of people all around the world and also > > themselves, since if others are secure, you yourself will become even more > > secure! > > > > For it, there would be few requirements. Free software, minimal, easy to > > use, beautiful to look at (by default). I guess the latter 2 are lagging a > > bit. > > > > Thanking you > > -- > > Sagar Acharya > > https://designman.org > > > > P.S. Shifted completely to dwm this week. Can't even think of anything > > theoretically better than this! > > > -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
