Sandbox

Ideas that could be worthwhile for the development of sta.li will be collected here. Just add them using the known ways of suckless wiki editing.

Principles

follow the UNIX philosophy
each executable is statically linked

Ideas

maybe a different format to ELF
kernel is a monolithic Linux kernel
- still make less used modules loadable (all kind of USB)
system loader is lilo
no initrd
make the whole system a ramdisk
a basic initsystem
updating is rsyncing the build files and rebuilding what is needed
all applications need dbus to be removed

Quick Ideas

use mdev for device management
- add a »dev« command for controlling mdev
  - make some minor/major/netlink extractor to a script
use busybox as first userland, then gradually move to stools
use svc for services
first use X11 for graphics until Wayland is getting sane
- if kernel graphics is getting faster use a framebuffer

Needed application replacements

new bluetooth stack without dbus
simple mDNS without dbus