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I came across this recently while looking at buildroot and tinycorelinux. I'm still working on it but tinyX+awesome is my target for a kind of minimum-viable-sy
by hkt 3y ago
I came across this recently while looking at buildroot and tinycorelinux. I'm still working on it but tinyX+awesome is my target for a kind of minimum-viable-system. I love software that I can conceivably learn enough about to contribute to without giving up my life, and tinyX (and awesome) both tick those boxes.
As a broader observation, it is encouraging to see things like this on HN as my (perhaps flawed) assumption is that generally small software is efficient software. I for one have had enough of my UX standing still because of code sprawl, and I wish we could get back to a time when a few hundred MHz or less was enough for most things.
- pengaru 3y ago> I wish we could get back to a time when a few hundred MHz or less was enough for most things. Modern display resolutions and color depths alone are responsible for a huge part of why that's no longer the case. And most people aren't interested in giving that up...
- makapuf 3y agoSure I like nice hidpi antialiased, slightly shadowed buttons with translucency, but I kind of like pixel embracing UIs (nice pixel fonts with no AA are quite legible to me). I'm on and off on writing a tiny 4 colors desktop with simple remote abilities..