What is computing minimalism?

>What is computing minimalism?
linfo.org/unix_philosophy.html
suckless.org/philosophy/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat

>Why software minimalism?
- Fewer bugs
- Better and faster performance
- Lower memory footprint
- Better maintainability
- Higher scalability
- Longer software lifetime
- Smaller attack surface

>List of minimal OSes and distros
>Obscure minimal
Plan 9, FreeDOS, Minix3, Genode
>Meme minimal
Alpine, Crux, Void, GuixSD, BSD, SourceMage, Any non-systemd Distro
>Autistic minimal
Arch, Gentoo, OpenBSD, LFS
>Most sane minimal
Debian (netinst)

>Minimal base Programs
>WM (window manager)
dwm
>Web browsers
Dillo, Surf, Links, w3m
>File Manager
Terminal
>Video/Music player
mpv or cmus
>Text editors
GNU nano or Vim
>Image viewer
FEH or sxiv
>Shells
mksh or dash
>Terminal
st

>Useful links
Suckless:suckless.org/rocks
Cat-v.org:harmful.cat-v.org/software/
Window Managers:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers
Without Systemd:without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd
Alternatives to Bloatware:github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

>Website development
werc.cat-v.org/
learnbchs.org/
tools.suckless.org/quark/
danluu.com/web-bloat/
motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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tracker.archlinux.org:6969/announce
vitanuova.com
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

first for why the fuck is (system)debian on the list of minimal distros

Second for why isn't SourceMage autistic minimal?

Arch is not minimal.

What's the quickest way to remove all unnecessary software from my Debian install?

Is Ubuntu Gnome minimal?

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click on this, dd onto flash drive, boot into it, partition drive, pacstrap, install grub

This, also CRUX

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Speaking of minimal, I recently wanted to fix my fonts but the minimal way and suspect I can do font rendering without fontconfig at all. Will post results later.

Did you guys see that picture with the Void using only 41MiB of RAM?

reminder that you are not minimal if your /usr is over 2528854016 bytes

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>install grub
Bloated trash. Either use syslinux or EFISTUB.

install gentoo

>2.5GB
Very true. You're also not minimal if your /usr is anywhere close to that size

This but consider LILO too.

Merry Christmas

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Has anyone managed to install Void Linux on a X240?

>implying that Emacs isn't minimal
>implying that i3wm isn't minimal

This post is autistic

If you disagree, do you mind explaining why?

Simple systems=bloat

systemd is the antithesis of minimalism. it does far more than just initing the system. feature creep is an understatement. even the resources linked in the op say so. sure, you can remove systemd from debian, but its a bitch and many packages depend on it. void or some other binary based nonsystemd distro should be the "most sane minimal."

Emacs is super bloated, it's like another entire operating system.

>many packages depend on it
Pretty sure Gentoo doesn't have this problem.

i love gentoo, but i wouldnt call it the most practical/sane minimalist distro. i would definitely recommend it for anyone with patience.

Merry merry

You recommended Linux in a software minimalism thread. This is how we all know you software minimalists are full of shit. Linux is the most bloated feature creep kernel ever created and you still recommend it in these threads. Linux literally adds features started by systemd such as udev and cgroups to the kernelspace. You software minimalists would stick with hobbyist kernels if you really cared about minimalism. You are frauds. Delete this thread.

Fuck Source Mage! Lunar Linux is the was to go, stupid fantasy nerds!

Fuck every os listed here, they're not minimal (maybe except for plan9). One of the smallest usable operating systems is Inferno - vitanuova.com . It uses a virtual machine with bytecode to be extremely portable, it runs on bare metal AND host operating systems. But do not worry, the whole vm and the limbo (the language it uses) compiler is smaller than the fucking java garbage collector (inferno is garbage collected too). It runs in Windows, Linux, MacOS, *BSD and bare metal. Give it a try!

I appreciate minimalism, but it should at least be practical. There's a difference between running a browser without addons and having a riced out distro with terrible UX.