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Subject This month in KISS (#3)!
From Dylan Araps <dylan@k1ss.org>
Date Mon, 25 Jun 2020 11:07:09 +0100
Welcome to the third monthly update for KISS Linux. The focus this month was on documentation and the reopening of the distribution's Wiki. A big thank you to those filling the Wiki with words.
The first thing you may notice is the website's new overall look. The new Wiki demanded features be added to the static site generator and the website also reaped these rewards.
KISS now has a "real" logo. The idea came to me as I was writing new pages for the website. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. It can be displayed as an image (TBA) or simply as ASCII text (as seen below).
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | |/ | | |\ISS | | | | An independent Linux(R) distribution with a focus on | | simplicity and the concept of less is more. | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---------+ +----+ +--------+ | | +-------------+ |/ | |/ | | | |/ | |/ | |/ | |/ | |\ISS LINUX | |\ | | |/ | |\ISS | |\ISS | |\ISS | |\ISS LINUX | +----+ | |\ | _____ | | +-------------+ |/ |/ | | +---------+ |\ISS Linux |\ +--------+
This text based representation of the logo also enables its usage in terminals, plain-text email and well... anywhere that text is available.
Every page on the website now uses a uniform line length (80 characters) which is far wider than the myriad of lengths used prior. The static website generator now supports hyperlinks via a minimal syntax as well as linking between two elements.
This linking allows for easy implementation of references as well as a table of contents where needed. Best of all is that these are all simple 'sed' calls during generation time. [0]
Every page on the website has been rewritten to fit the aforementioned changes and the reading experience should now be far more enjoyable. For those wondering what the old website used to look like, see [1].
[0] https://github.com/kisslinux/website/blob/master/make#L5-L29
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200521223143/https://k1ss.org/
The Wiki has reopened! SEE:
https://k1ss.org/wiki/help/about-this-wiki
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | _ _____ ___ ___ __ _____ _ _____ | | | |/ /_ _/ __/ __\ \ \ / /_ _| |/ /_ _| | | | ' < | |\__ \__ \ \ \/\/ / | || ' < | | | | |_|\_\___|___/___/ \_/\_/ |___|_|\_\___| | | | | Welcome to the KISS WIKI. Documentation and information | | about KISS and Linux in general. Written by the Community. | | | | | | | | .--------------------------------------------------------. | | | | | | | This wiki is incomplete, you can help by expanding it! | | | | | .--. | | '-------------------------------------------------------\\|o_o | | | |:_/ | | | // \ \ | | (| | ) | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Sources:
https://github.com/kisslinux/wiki
I decided to close the old Wiki as it was difficult to work with, unstructured and all over the place. This turned contributors away and its information began to rot over time. [2]
These issues have been solved in the rebirth and contributions have been steady since its opening. I hope to see this become a bountiful resource for users of KISS and beyond.
Once again, a big thank you to everyone writing pages.
[2] https://github.com/kisslinux/website/commit/62e3ed0e974b3eb5b636e7a91914992cd9ea62c8
The distribution's documentation is now browsable via a tiny utility included with the package manager. The installation guide, FAQ, Wiki(!) and all other documentation is also available by default.
kiss-help utility:
#!/bin/sh
# Read KISS documentation
cd "$KISS_ROOT/usr/share/doc/kiss" 2>/dev/null || {
printf 'Documentation is missing from /usr/share/doc/kiss\n'
exit 1
[ -f "${1:-.}/index.txt" ] && file=./${1:-.}/index.txt
[ -f "${1:-.}.txt" ] && file=./${1:-.}.txt
[ -f "${1:-:}" ] && file=./${1:-.}
"${PAGER:-less}" "${file:-404.txt}
Usage of the above utility is as follows.
$ kiss help install # Installation guide.
$ kiss help package-manager # Package manager manual.
$ kiss help package-system # Package system documentation.
$ kiss help wiki/software/git # Wiki page.
$ kiss help wiki/software # Pages under software in the Wiki.
$..
This will open the desired page in the pager of your choosing ('less' by default). This is configurable via the $PAGER environment variable. One can of course browse the txt files in /usr/share/doc/kiss directly, this merely adds a little sugar on top.
For those wondering about disk space requirements, all documentation (including the entire Wiki) come in at around 400K~ (for 50 pages of information).
The package manager saw a few nice improvements and a range of bug fixes.
See:
I have started work on an alternative implementation of the package manager written in C (C99). This is where the majority of my time has been spent for the past 12 days (Git stats: 269 commits, 22,954 ++ 21,029 --).
Things are coming along nicely with package listing, package searching, source downloads, checksum verification/generation and package builds in working order.
The goal is a single, statically linked executable with little to no reliance on overall system health. In other words, a broken system shouldn't also break the package manager.
This implementation will eventually become the default package manager with the current shell based one offered as an alternative. If all goes well, the new package manager should be ready for early testing in a month or so.
Source:
https://github.com/dylanaraps/k
The build machine donated by a very generous KISS user finally arrived this week after a long stay at customs and countless phone calls back and forth.
It is a beautifully made machine and it runs silently at full load. The system even came with KISS installed! A thank you from the bottom of my heart for the donation. I will never forget this.
I finished setting it up just yesterday and it will be put to use as a build machine (as mentioned in last month's post). It will additionally be used as a test bed to explore the large number of ideas in my TODO list.
Dilyn Corner has successfully ported KDE to KISS! I mentioned this last month though it only recently reached a usable state. This is wonderful to see!
https://github.com/dilyn-corner/KISS-kde
This is still in its early stages though Eudald Gubert i Roldan has begun the work in porting LXQT to KISS.
https://github.com/eudaldgr/kiss-repo/tree/master/lxqt
James Davies has ported KISS to ARMV7! James is also the creator of the AARCH64 and PPC64LE ports.
Source:
https://github.com/jedavies-dev/kiss-armv7
A full list of ports can be found here:
https://k1ss.org/wiki/community/ports
Dylan Araps (100):
cmake: bump to 3.17.3
flex: Also provide lex
kiss: bump to 2.1.4
x265: bump to 3.4
util-linux: Fix source (cert exp)
xfsprogs: Fix source (cert exp)
git: fix sources (cert exp)
pkgconf: bump to 1.7.3
busybox: Add ping6, traceroute, etc
busybox: Add ipv6 support to -suid stuff
dhcpcd: bump to 9.1.0
firefox: Fix missing m4 make depend. Closes #196
dhcpcd: Fix missing include
gcc: fix source (cert expr)
git: bump to 2.27.0
perl: bump to 5.30.3
libressl: bump to 3.2.0
firefox-esr: bump to 68.9.0esr
firefox: bump to 77.0
kiss: bump to 2.1.5
rust: Fix build with libressl 3.2.X
nodejs: bump to 14.4.0
firefox: sort depends
bison: bump to 3.6.3
xkeyboard-config: bump to 2.30
kiss: bump to 2.1.6
firefox-esr-bin: bump to 68.9.0esr
firefox-bin: bump to 77.0
firefox: bump to 77.0.1
firefox-bin: bump to 77.0.1
intel-vaapi-driver: bump to 2.4.1
intel-vaapi-driver: Forgot to bump version
dhcpcd: bump to 9.1.1
sqlite: bump to 3.32.2
rust [testing]: bump to 1.44.0
rust: bump to 1.44.0
freetype-harfbuzz: bump to 2.10.2+2.6.7
kiss: bump to 2.1.7
musl: Fix incorrect symlink to libc.so
python2: Enable pip.
kiss: bump to 2.1.8
liberation-fonts: bump to 2.1.1
ccache: Add new message to post-install
kiss: bump to 2.1.9
alsa-lib: bump to 1.2.3
alsa-utils: bump to 1.2.3
linux-headers: Bump to 5.4.45
mesa: bump to 20.1.1
kiss: bump to 3.0.0
repo: Add README.txt
repo: Remove README.md
repo: Move license to .txt
kiss: bump to 3.0.1
kiss: bump to 3.0.2
kiss: bump to 3.0.3
kiss: bump docs
kiss: fix sources. Closes #197
bison: bump to 3.6.4
dhcpcd: bump to 9.1.2
meson: bump to 0.54.3
ffmpeg: bump to 4.3
firefox: Use CC. Closes #198
sqlite: bump to 3.32.3
alsa-lib: bump to 1.2.3.1
sudo: bump to 1.9.1
libinput: bump to 1.15.6
st: bump to 0.8.4
rsync: bump to 3.2.0
glib: Also build static libraries
rust: bump to 1.44.1
perl: bump to 5.32.0
freetype-harfbuzz: bump to 2.10.2+2.6.8
ccache: bump to 3.7.10
rsync: bump to 3.2.1
libjpeg-turbo: bump to 2.0.5
curl: bump to 7.71.0
cbindgen: bump to 0.14.3
mesa: bump to 20.1.2
kiss: bump to 3.0.4
nano: bump to 4.9.3
youtube-dl: bump to 2020.05.29
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-15
nano: Fix depends. closes #885
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-16
github: Update style guide link
ncdu: bump to 1.15
youtube-dl: bump to 2020.06.06
ethtool: bump to 5.7
harfbuzz-icu: bump to 2.6.7
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-17
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-18
cython: bump to 0.29.20
gmp: Fix missing depend
docs: Swap to new README/LICENSE format
docs: Swap to new README/LICENSE format
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-19
ncdu: bump to 1.15.1
file: bump to 5.39
youtube-dl: bump to 2020.06.16.1
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-20
harfbuzz-icu: bump to 2.6.8
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-21
Aaron G (1):
loksh: delete package in favor of oksh (#895)
Adam Schaefers (9):
libgpg-error: bump to 1.38 (#890)
pciutils: bump to 3.7.0 (#889)
strace: bump to 5.7 (#898)
gnutls: bump to 3.6.14, remove sed from build (#919)
iptables: bump to 1.8.5 (#918)
iproute2: bump to 5.7.0 (#917)
libcap: bump to 2.36 (#916)
dash: bump to 0.5.11 (#915)
strace depends: Add linux-headers (#941)
Artem Kobets (1):
man-pages: update to 5.07 (#928)
Bridouz (3):
syncthing: upgrade to 1.5.0 (#869)
syncthing: upgrade to 1.6.0 (#900)
syncthing: upgrade to 1.6.1 (#909)
Camille (2):
micro: update to 2.0.5 (#950)
freerdp: update to 2.1.2 (#960)
Cem Keylan (7):
gst-plugins-base: add linux-headers as a make dependency (#863)
glib-networking: bump to 2.64.3 (#868)
sysmgr: add pre-shutdown hooks, minor nitpicks (#877)
gst-plugins: rename lcms2 to lcms (#905)
shinit: add new package at 1.0.0 (#907)
boost: fix source (#923)
mpd: bump to 0.21.24 (#933)
Cliford Sab (1):
nnn: bump to 3.2 (#946)
Cédric (5):
poppler: update to version 0.89.0 (#859)
cups-filters: depedency of lcms2 renamed to lcms (#906)
msmtp: update to 1.8.11 (#926)
cups-filters: update to 1.27.5 (#927)
sane: new package at 1.0.30 (#948)
Dilyn Corner (4):
Qt bump (#856)
Falkon update (#857)
viper-browser added at git (#858)
extra-cmake-modules bumped to 5.71.0 (#944)
Eudald Gubert i Roldan (1):
font-awesome-*: bump to 5.13.1 (#953)
Himmalerin (1):
mercurial: update to 5.4.1 (#925)
James Davies (1):
qemu: Build static linux-user binaries (#951)
Kiëd Llaentenn (5):
ripgrep: bump from v12.1.0 => v12.1.1 (#879)
tokei: bump from v11.1.1 => v11.2.0 (#876)
hyperfine: bump from v1.9.0 => v1.10.0 (#873)
tokei: update to v11.2.1 (#897)
fd: update to v8.1.1 (#896)
Kris Heck (4):
lcms2: bump to 2.10 (#899)
lcms: rename from lcms2 (#903)
openjpeg2: Update depends for lcms name change (#904)
lcms: bump to 2.11 (#959)
M. Herdiansyah (7):
bspwm: fix gcc 10 (#880)
sxhkd: fix gcc 10 (#878)
feh: update to 3.4.1 (#875)
cryptsetup: update to 2.3.3 (#874)
perl: bump rel (#901)
minisign: update to 0.9 (#921)
go: update to 1.14.4 (#920)
Michael Czigler (4):
rtl-sdr: new package at 0.6.0 (#855)
tiv: new package at 1.0.0 (#911)
libvncserver: new at 0.9.13 (#940)
x11vnc: new package at 0.9.16 (#942)
Timothy Robert Bednarzyk (2):
w3m: bump release (newer source, same version) (#870)
fuse: bump to version 3.9.2 (#939)
aosync (1):
es: new package at 0.9.1 (#910)
ax (3):
Btrfs-progs: bump to 5.6.1 (#883)
Bind: bump to 9.17.1 (#888)
Libuv: bump to 1.38.0 (#887)
depsterr (3):
Addition of tlp and xbacklight (#931)
Add ghc-bin (#935)
TLP: corrected dependencies (#945)
djt3 (3):
Fix dependancies for tuitube and curlpp (#943)
rpcsvc-proto: new package at 1.4.1 (#956)
libtirpc: new package at 1.2.6 (#957)
ectlunya (7):
mblaze: new package at 0.2 (#865)
abduco: new package at 0.6 (#882)
ii: new package at 1.8 (#881)
mblaze: update to version 0.7 (#894)
djvulibre: new package at 3.5.27 (#892)
zathura-djvu: new package at 0.2.9 (#893)
ii: fix permissions (#930)
penguin-ff (3):
mutt: update to 1.14.2 (#924)
mutt: update to 1.14.3 (#947)
mutt: update to 1.14.4 (#954)
periish (6):
Bump nss to v3.52. (#860)
Fix nss headers and close #861 (#864)
Update NSS (#886)
Fix manpages. (#912)
New package baseutils (#914)
Fix build. (#934)
sdsddsd1 (1):
sdl: add missing depends: linux-headers (#913)
