On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 02:21:57PM +0000, Richard wrote: > Actually, having set my expectations very low, I am finding that it works > surprisingly well. Having played and poked around in the OS for a few hours > this has lead to yet more questions: > > - do we install a pager? I've look in bin for more/less/pg etc. Are there any > plans for a pager? I looked in the TODO documents for both sbase and ubase > but did not notice any.
Yes there are plans for a pager. The heirloom project has a pg implementation I think. > - am I correct in thinking that we install manual pages, but currently no > 'man' program to read them? I'd propose using the OpenBSD man tools. > - looking further ahead; has there been any thoughts towards a > staticallylinked/musl-based X11 server? Is it feasible to simply take the > xorg sources and compile those with static linking or does that not work (or > would it be philosophically incompatible)? suckless obviously has some useful > tools like 'st' and 'dmenu' ready to go once X11 is available. I ask because > the finest browser ever written is obviously 'surf', but worryingly surf > depends on webkitgtk; which depends on gtk; which in turn might lead back to > glibc,glib etc. There are ugly workarounds. I will try to dig out some logs from #suckless explaining the core concepts. > - what's the relationship between 'stali' and the 'morpheus' project which I > stumbled accross over at 2f30? Has one replaced the other? Are they > developing in parallel? Morpheus was an experimental distro I started along with some friends to see if we can realize the stali idea. We made some mistakes along the way however. We'll try to correct these in stali. > This is a fun distribution - thanks for writing it, R. It is not ready yet!
