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 East Germany in 2002. He became a particularly vocal proponent of the suckless philosophy, hoping 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 the 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. 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.[4] Suckless later developed stali - static linux, an operating system with statically linked executables that adheres to the suckless principles.[5]

Ingenious ideas are simple. Ingenious software is simple. Simplicity is the heart of the Unix philosophy. The more code lines you have removed, the more progress you have made. As the number of lines of code in your software shrinks, the more skilled you have become and the less your software sucks. — The suckless.org philosophy

The design approach of the development team follows the New Jersey style of "Worse is better" and adheres to the KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid").[6]

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. ↑ Garbe, Anselm R. (14 March 2007). "[dwm] 9ubuntu?". suckless.org. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Garbe, Anselm R. "stali – static linux" (PDF). LinuxTag. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Schnalke, Markus (14 August 2008). "marmaro.de" (PDF). suckless.org — software that sucks less. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

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