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suckless
Founded2002; 22 years ago (2002)[1]
FounderAnselm R. Garbe[2]
TypeCommunity
FocusFree software
Productsdwm, st, surf, and other tools
Websitesuckless.org

suckless.org is a community of programmers working on minimalist free software projects with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality. The group developed dwm and wmii window managers, surf,[3] tabbed, and other programs that are said to adhere strictly to the UNIX philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well."[1]

History

The suckless community was founded by Anselm R. Garbe from Germany[2] in 2002.[1] He became a vocal proponent of the suckless philosophy, saying that "a lot [of what] went wrong in the IT industry recently [...] be recognized in order to rethink the common practice, and perhaps to think about the time when Moore's law stops being a valid assumption."[2] The suckless manifesto deplores the common tendency for "complex, error-prone and slow software [that] seems to be prevalent in the present-day software industry", and argues that a programmer's performance should not be measured by the number of lines of code he writes.[4]

In October 2006, Garbe registered the domain suckless.org to replace 10kloc.org and wmii.de.[5]

In 2007, Garbe called for the need for a "Plan 9 lover's and C hacker Ubuntu" which comes packed with dwm/wmii and all necessary tools for developing C code and suggested calling it 9ubuntu.[6] Suckless later developed stali (static Linux), an operating system with statically linked executables that adheres to the suckless principles.[7]

The development team follows the New Jersey style of "Worse is better" and adheres to the KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid").[8]

Notable projects

  • dwm – window manager
  • dmenu – keyboard-driven menu utility
  • ii – IRC client
  • sbase - UNIX core utilities
  • surf – web browser
  • wmii – window manager
  • st - lightweight, 256color-enabled (with 24bit colour support) terminal emulator
  • stali - static Linux distribution

Conferences

Starting in 2013 the suckless.org community organizes annual conferences[9] and hackathon gatherings focusing on technical topics and socializing with community members.

suckless.org e.V.

In 2015 the legal entity suckless.org e.V. was founded during the suckless conference.[10] Its aim and main purpose is supporting the projects of suckless.org and open source in general.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Kopta, Martin (2 December 2013). "Suckless: méně smradlavý software". Root.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Woehr, Jack (6 August 2009). "Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org". Dr. Dobb's. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Приложения от сообщества suckless.org". mykomp2.ru (in Russian). 3 July 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Philosophy". suckless.org. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ Garbe, Anselm R. (9 October 2006). "suckless.org - new primary domain, wmii.de, wmii.net, shortest.de and 10kloc.org going to be dropped". wmii (Mailing list).
  6. ^ Garbe, Anselm R. (14 March 2007). "[dwm] 9ubuntu?". suckless.org. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  7. ^ Garbe, Anselm R. "stali – static linux" (PDF). LinuxTag. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  8. ^ Schnalke, Markus (14 August 2008). "marmaro.de" (PDF). suckless.org – software that sucks less. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  9. ^ https://suckless.org/conferences/
  10. ^ https://ev.suckless.org/
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