desktop, with hevel (https://sr.ht/~dlm/hevel/)

@pfr i have seen this before. there really should be more plan 9 forks out there, there’s so much potential for fun stuff there. maybe a future project :)

@benjamineskola @pfr @stefano binaries can be a little larger. we have multi-terabyte ssd’s now, so it’s not a big deal at all. startup time is usually faster for binaries. dll hell is also a very real problem (for me, atleast) that static linking avoids. in terms of relinking everything on updates, our package manager sorts all that out.

@pfr thanks for spreading the good word all the way to mastodon :)

Who else likes small, statically linked Linux systems?

Check out #dérive Linux

https://derivelinux.org/

Feel like trying a new window manager?

#hevel is a scrollable, floating window manager for wayland, that uses mouse chords for commands.

it's design is inspired by the ideas found in rob pike's 1988 paper, 'Window Systems Should be Transparent', taken to their logical extremes. As such, you could say it is a modernization of the line of mouse-driven unix/plan9 window systems, mux, 8½, and rio, all created by rob pike. however, it differs in the fact that there are no menus, and you are not limited to a single screen worth of space; you are able to infinitely scroll up and down, creating windows anywhere on the plane.

it is implemented using the wonderful swc library, with a fair few extensions.

#hevel is the flagship window manager designed and implemented for use with #dérive linux

Hevel:
https://hevel.derivelinux.org (WIP)
https://sr.ht/~dlm/hevel/

Dérive Linux:
https://derivelinux.org/

first mastodon post! well, i just wanted to show you this blog post i wrote, about how i built a faster, simpler, drop-in replacement for gnu autotools in C because autotools is a pile of shit

https://stuff.shrub.industries/words/hell/

#gnu #linux #unix