suckless.org

suckless
Founded 2002 (2002)
Founder Anselm R. Garbe[1]
Type Community
Focus Free software
Products dwm, st, surf, and other tools
Slogan Software that sucks less
Website suckless.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,[2] tabbed, and other programs that adhere strictly to the UNIX philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well."[3]

History

The suckless community was founded by Anselm R. Garbe from Germany in 2002. He became a vocal proponent of the suckless philosophy, saying that "a lot [of what] went wrong in the IT industry recently [...] be recognised in order to rethink the common practice, and perhaps to think about the time when Moore's law stops being a valid assumption."[1] 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 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.[5] Suckless later developed stali (static Linux), an operating system with statically linked executables that adheres to the suckless principles.[6]

The development team follows the New Jersey style of "Worse is better" and adheres to the KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid").[7]

Notable projects

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Woehr, Jack (6 August 2009). "Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org". Dr. Dobb's. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Приложения от сообщества suckless.org". mykomp2.ru (in Russian). 3 July 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Kopta, Martin (2 December 2013). "Suckless: méně smradlavý software". Root.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Philosophy". suckless.org. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Garbe, Anselm R. (14 March 2007). "[dwm] 9ubuntu?". suckless.org. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Garbe, Anselm R. "stali – static linux" (PDF). LinuxTag. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Schnalke, Markus (14 August 2008). "marmaro.de" (PDF). suckless.org – software that sucks less. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

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