| > [OT] Hi Dylan! Just discovered your project - KISS. I respect you a lot for what you write, and you've been an inspiration at times. Thanks, I appreciate it! :) > Did you just decide one day that you have to write a distribution from scratch? Pretty much. I'd been distro hopping for some time and wasn't happy with any of the choices in front of me. I wanted something that could run without `dbus`, `glibc`, `systemd`, `wayland`, `polkit`, `elogind`, etc etc and none of the other distributions could provide this. Even Gentoo through their arms in the air when Firefox 69 broke the `--disable-dbus` configure flag (and added a mandatory dependency on `dbus`). I instead spent the hours patching `dbus` out of Firefox 69 and that's how I ship it in KISS. https://github.com/kisslinux/repo/blob/master/extra/firefox/... > What was the thought process Start from zero and build piece by piece questioning each step along the way. Is this needed? Are there alternatives? Can we do this in a "simpler" way? Step away, come back to it later and ask "was this right?", "can we trim back the fat?". This repeated until things were effectively "done". > and how complicated is it actually No piece of software seems to list its (mandatory) dependencies properly so it was a trial and error of figuring out _exactly_ what each piece of software needs. Looking at other distributions themselves wasn't much help as they list a lot of "optional" dependencies as "required". There's also no (or very little) documentation online for how to write a package manager or Linux distribution from scratch. It's been a tedious but rewarding process thus far. I'm talking to you from KISS right now! It feels good to turn on my laptop and be running a distribution I created from scratch. :) > Also, I'd like to contribute if there's a chance. Go for it! In terms of contribution there's bug reporting, fixing documentation, adding missing packages, fixing bugs in existing packages etc. Hop on IRC (#kisslinux @ freenode.net) if you'd like to chat. :) |