Suckless.org
suckless.org is a free software community of programmers working on projects with a focus on minimalism, simplicity, clarity, and frugality. The group developed the dwm and wmii window managers, surf, tabbed, and other programs that are said to adhere strictly to the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well". The development team follows the "Worse is better" principle and adheres to the KISS principle.
History
The suckless community was founded by Anselm R. Garbe in 2006. He became a vocal proponent of the suckless philosophy, saying that "a lot 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." The suckless manifesto deplores the common tendency for "complex, error-prone and slow software 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 they write.In October 2006, Garbe registered the domain suckless.org to replace 10kloc.org and wmii.de.
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. Suckless later developed stali, an operating system with statically linked executables that adheres to the suckless principles.
Projects
- dwm – window manager
- dmenu – keyboard-driven menu utility
- ii – IRC client
- sbase – UNIX core utilities
- surf – web browser based on WebKitGTK
- wmii – window manager
- st – lightweight, 256 colour-enabled terminal emulator
- stali – static Linux distribution