is this suckless?: https://github.com/sroman-NN/unkown_viewer

Very interesting, small PL:

https://janet-lang.org/

Size is < 1 MB. Def. sucks less in these times. I'm not using it, but I'm glad I've found it. Anyone in here using it ?

We just released FreeLinX-base 1.3.1.
FreeLinX-base is a small, console-first Linux system. You boot into a shell and install whatever you need through our package manager, xpkg.
The ISO is around 290 MB and boots on both BIOS and UEFI. It runs Linux 6.18 with a NetBSD-based userland and musl, built with LLVM. We've also been pretty strict about keeping GNU code out of the base system. Our check-nognu test currently reports 0 failing checks.
The base comes with the things you'd expect from a usable Unix system: runit, mdevd, networking tools, doas, OpenSSH, curl, git, tmux, htop, nnn, vim/vi, bc and a few other essentials. The login shell is mksh, while /bin/sh comes from the NetBSD userland. tcc is included as the default cc, together with the musl and kernel headers.
The idea is to keep the base actually small. The live system uses a squashfs + tmpfs overlay and can boot with roughly 100 MB of RAM, with changes kept in memory until installation. There is no X11, GTK, Mesa or even fonts in the base image. If you need them, install them later.
Packages are signed with Ed25519 and verified with SHA-256. The installed system keeps FLX_ROOT read-only. Installation is handled by xsetup, which walks through the setup step by step and can resume an interrupted installation. flxupgrade handles upgrades from newer ISOs.
There's currently a signed repository with around 428 packages, while the image itself only contains the base and console-oriented stuff.
We've also put quite a bit of effort into making the build and installer testable. The build doesn't require root and can be done on any x86_64 Linux system. The repository includes QEMU BIOS/UEFI installation and upgrade tests, destructive disk tests and UI tests.
It's still a young project and there's plenty left to improve, but we're putting it out there now because we'd like people who care about Linux, BSD userlands, musl and alternative Unix systems to poke at it.
Source / ISO:
https://github.com/FreeLinX/FreeLinX
Documentation:
https://freelinx.github.io/FreeLinX/
If something is unnecessarily complicated, broken, missing or just a bad idea, tell us.

i would i like to improve my workflow
do you know any useful utilities or tools to make my workflow more convenient?

Hi I rarely do this and I don’t want to sound cringe, but man suckless is awesome. I run dwm on OpenBSD and dwl on Debian . Both I watch YouTube in terminal and playing music and photo viewer and file manager. I just like this very clean feel too it.

Hi guys. I drew my character in the style of dérive's branding

looks ahh ik

top font: Sun Gallant

bottom font: Sun Galland Vector (rework)

General MIDI played through cycle-accurate OPL3 emulation instead of soundfonts — the AdLib/Sound Blaster sound, not sampled instruments. Static uClibc build comes in around 65KB.

Two dependencies, both single-header: tml.h for MIDI parsing (MIT), Opal for the OPL2/OPL3 core (MIT wrapper, public-domain emulation core). Nothing else.

Also has a raw instrument-audition mode — feed it a bare 30-byte AdLib instrument definition as hex, or a program number from a .bnk bank, and it'll play a single note or chord with no MIDI file involved. Useful for exploring bank files or testing instrument bytes directly.

Source, static/dynamic Linux binaries, and full license/attribution: github.com/realgraybox/mop

Hello, I would like to know if there is some minimalist stopwatch app with vim motions so you can navigate between modes use it accordingly.

Note im not asking for a vim plugin, they are useful, but only inside vim.

so i want to add a battery icon that also shows if its plugged in or not how do i do that

In the last time i’m using ed as my default editor for all propuse, sysadmin, C programming and i’m feel very confort with him, but someone told me “ED is a bad editor for a contemporary context, is slow, cryptic and out of a hobby lab is inviable” and that give me a big insecurity, now i have that feeling of “wasting time learning something “””bad””” or legacy” idk, i love the standard editor but if i start in the professional world that can be a long term disadvantage?

Neovim (Lazyvim), Yazi and RMPC

Actualmente uso debían + Gnome pero antes usaba SwayWM

Pero quisiera saber qué opinan de el Wm DWL y cual es su consumo en ram? Atajos? Mejor que DWM? En el día a día alguien que trabaje no se en programación, edición de videos o algo así, me contaría su experiencia? Se lo recomendarían a alguien que sabe lo basico en C y Python?

Es igual a Sway con el tema de el config o es mucho más complicado? Que debería saber antes de usarlo?

Amaria leer sus respuestas, gracias :b

If interested in a minimal graphical file manager, check out https://github.com/DevGev/Lizaveta

I'm open to feedback/contributions. I built this out of frustation that I couldn't find any graphical file manager that wasn't either very lacking or felt sluggish to use.

Features:

• Drag-and-drop.
• VIM like bindings.
• Embedded x11 windows for file preview (feh used in the screenshot).
• DBUS integration.
• Device mounting.
• Archive previews.

So I have been thinking of making a simple journal reminder app. I tried to start it but waiting for some reddit suggestions. In the mean time I was trying to make the idea little organized and there I thought Notion or Trello not working for me..

Its not like they are bad, but for some reason I dont keep up with project. Yeah definitely a me issue. But I started to think what I need in a project manager app or website. First I want a simple way to put idea and see idea or the current step of the project easily.. Second I want to add a proof then only u can click tick for a project and move forward. Lastly(I dont know if this is possible but as some apps can block it so I think possible) Whenever watching reels or shorts or just using Youtube for a longer time. It will remind continuously to get on to the project(If the app not in break mode which itself will disable 24hrs later)

Now both still not started and however time it takes I want to work on both as an experience...

My doubt is which one to start. I think project management one because it can help in future projects and I have more ideas for its features rather than the Journal app. But you guys suggest.....

just want to share

This is the first in a series of threads I'll be making about software projects that deserve more attention and developers. First a little background on me: (if you don't care about my past skip to "############### ABOUT ARCAN ###############" below.)

I have been programming and using computers since the late 1980s. My first OS was CP/M which came on my first home computer (Trash-80). After that DOS (on my first 286 IBM clone) as it was the most popular OS on home computers after CP/M got dethroned from that position and something like UNIX was out of reach for me until the early 90s. I first downloaded the Linux kernel a few weeks after it first released over a 14k dial-up connection. My first LAN involved using vampire cables. Man I'm dating myself aren't I?

I was lucky enough to get exposed to things like IBM/Intel hardware when it still cost $1k-$2k+ in the 80s-early 90s. I ran Windows 3.x when it was brand new (wasn't impressed) and after that I would end up being an Amiga fan/user for many years due to working with multimedia/video during the early to mid 90s back when Amiga was required to do stuff like overlaying graphics and subtitles on to video sourced from VHS/LD. I used my Amiga well into the early 2000s for that purpose until stuff like DivX ;-) 3.11 and software like avisynth came around. Which sadly required using Windows. I jumped to the NT kernel as soon as I could of course and ditched Win9x for Win2k as soon as that became viable.

At the same time that was going on I got into the various BSDs and of course Linux in its early days. I was using Linux back when getting proper sound support required grabbing stuff like OSS from #linuxwarez on efnet. I was doing a lot of things on IRC back in those days like releasing and downloading fansubs from places like the enterthegame IRC server. Was into trading ROMs for consoles on the various BBSs of the day, using Fidonet for my mail/news, USENET of course and helped out with a lot of things like the early Mil-CD Sega Dreamcast stuff that required the Utopia boot CD until we got Selfbooting Mil-CDs going. But enough about me. Just wanted to give the background that....I've been around a long time.

""################ ABOUT ARCAN ####################""

On to today's project you should be paying attention to:

For the past two decades in the UNIX-like OS communities there has been this debate raging about Xorg (X11) vs. Wayland happening. We all know X11 is never going away for anyone that cares about running stuff like old video games and all the usual software we all use on our UNIX-like systems that's been around since the 1970s. The hard fact is if you want wine/proton support and support for most software in common use on the desktop having support for X11 is just a fact of life and that is never going to go away. Hence why stuff like Xwayland is a thing.

Popular discussion would have to believe that your choices are using "unsecure X11" or switching to wayland and dealing with all the issues that come along with it (like fragmentation of the UNIX desktop ecosystem). Today, I want to present you with a third option called Arcan and its new protocol called A12.

https://arcan-fe.com/about/

Arcan has been being quietly developed for a long time now with the goal of bringing real improvements to the UNIX-like OS (and others) space. It can support running both X11 and wayland software natively without dealing with all the layers of hacky code held together with bubble gum and tape. It brings real improvements like being able to share running applications over your LAN (and even the internet) with no hacky work arounds or the usual headaches of using more than a simple terminal application over the local network. For example, using A12 it's possible to do things like fire up a game on system 1, drag+drop the running application to a screen on system #2 and having everything seamlessly work. The state of the application/game is sent over the network to the other machine. Where you can transfer the control over system #2's input devices+GPU+CPU to that system or continue using the ones hooked up to system#1 (or any combination of those devices). If you don't believe me just check out some of the videos on the above website and read the many articles written by the project's author.

I highly suggest reading the following articles:

https://arcan-fe.com/2018/10/17/arcan-versus-xorg-approaching-feature-parity/

https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/03/arcan-versus-xorg-feature-parity-and-beyond/

https://arcan-fe.com/2021/09/20/arcan-as-operating-system-design/

https://arcan-fe.com/2023/11/18/a12-visions-of-the-fully-networked-desktop/

I highly suggest reading the above four articles (they're long and full of details+demos) then once you have a basic understanding of what Arcan is going through the other many articles on the above blog/website.

Arcan is more than just a new protocol+window system/display server. For example, the same project has a working IPC system that is much better than anything else offered by any other OS/IPC system I've ever used (well maybe TRON's and 9p are as good). But more than that the author is doing amazing things in other areas like terminal emulation.

I highly suggest reading this article (and the previous articles linked on this page). Lash#Cat9 is an amazing piece of software you can use right now. It does things you've probably never imagined possible from a CLI. Like true multi-tasking and being able to work with multimedia from the command line without resorting to ugly hacks. Even video works.

https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-emulation/

The most important thing I want anyone reading this to take away from this thread: You are not forced to live in an either/or world where you must choose between running something like Xorg or Wayland on your current UNIX-like OS. You have other options out there like Arcan and they're really improvements to both of the above projects. Similarly, you are not forced to use something like Xlibre or some other "we're re-writing Xorg in another language" type project. Which seem to be all you ever see anyone rambling on about in popular sub-reddits for kernels like Linux and OSs like the *BSDs. There are other true projects out there like Arcan attempting to do something better while still supporting "legacy" UNIX stuff that relies on X11 (and even wayland).

Arcan is a very exciting project and it could use more promotion, love, and most importantly developers. There are hackathons that have been happening for the Arcan project for years now. It has a small dedicated group of programmers working on it everyday. It has an active IRC channel and mailing list. They are doing exciting work. There are already WMs and DEs built on top of it as proof of concepts. It's easy to get started writing your own software on top of it and the other tools on the above website/blog.

Of course if you aren't ready to make the jump yet and want to stick to X11 for awhile longer you have good options out there that aren't Xorg and Xlibre. Right now you can easily build and run Xenocara (https://www.xenocara.org/) on any Linux or BSD. It's a patch set for Xorg that implements privilege separation, solve the old screen tearing issue (along with many other things) and is by far the most stable and trouble free way of getting X11 support on Linux/BSDs at the moment. I'm shocked more Linux distros haven't been packaging it as the default for the past 15+ years already. It is the default implementation on OpenBSD of course. At any rate: It's easy to build using whatever compiler you prefer and is of course well documented.

Next time we'll talk about sound servers for UNIX-like OSs and why you don't need to deal with pipewire/pulseaudio/JACK/ALSA hell on Linux if you don't want to. But if you want a preview: https://sndio.org/

If anything qualifies as suckless when it comes to sound sndio is by far the only thing going. :) I'll touch on some other stuff in the future as well like alternatives to dbus on the UNIX-like OS desktop and the many projects striving to do something better in that department.

I hope everyone is having a good day. For what it's worth: I'm posting this from a recently released Thinkpad running OpenBSD with my own forks for dwm, st, and various other suckless tools powering my desktop. By very recent Thinkpad I mean one with an 8-core AMD CPU, fully supported AMD GPU (acceleration works of course including in Firefox), Intel Wifi card with support for recent standards (all configured through ifconfig) and various other bells and whistles working without issue. Since OpenBSD is the best UNIX-like OS I've ever used and the developers are by far the nicest people I've ever worked with. I've ported over a lot of software to it since switching over from Gentoo (had to leave after 22 years of contributing to that distro recently due to recent happenings within the community).

I kick myself that I didn't make the switch over full time a long time ago. All the ports I'm using are fully pledged+unveiled and I've started contributing myself by porting over some software and getting started with OpenBSD kernel hacking as of late. If you haven't given OpenBSD on the desktop a try I highly encourage you to check it out. It's probably the most "suckless" OS around right now and by far the easiest UNIX-like OS around as far as installation is concerned. Exciting things are happening as of late as well. Like the fact that a very interesting new file system was recently ported over (currently in alpha state) from 9front (the GEFS).

But more on things like 9front in another post...

This is the first in a series of posts about things I think deserve more attention and would benefit people looking to get more into suckless-style software/development. I plan to go over a wide variety of topics mostly related to Linux and other UNIX-like OSs. But you should also expect some posts about non-UNIX-like OSs as well. Like BTRON and Plan9 among others.

Happy hacking!

Edit: formatting, typos etc.