terminal linux

[maiden bloom]

a cool linux distro which uses only text and even has a working image reader with a custom format!

[coral oracle]

so a tty only distro

[maiden bloom]

sure

[maiden bloom]

but it’s cool!!

[coral oracle]

i mean

isnt arch already that??

by default

[maiden bloom]

🤔

[coral oracle]

and so is debian

and a bunch of other distros

what makes your project stand out?

[maiden bloom]

ok anyways im just doing this for fun so uhh possibly nothing :P

[maiden bloom]

well uhh it has only a text mode, only unicode characters (braille for “pixels” allowed), custom software adapted to this and also that one image format that im thinking about making

[maiden bloom]

wait hold on do i even need an answer to this other than “im doing this for fun so why do u gaf what makes this stand out” bru

[lethal lava]

cool

try making a wm in the tty :3

[maiden bloom]

a whar

[lethal lava]

windows manager

[muted pike]

twin

twin

is a thing

[shrewd spire]

astolfOS > terminal linux

[thin juniper]

twin 🥹✌️

[maiden bloom]

uhh sure not gonna be too hard ig

[maiden bloom]

who knows maybe

[muted pike]

twin is name of the wm

well multiplexer

[maiden bloom]

oh cool

[lethal lava]

cool

[muted pike]

also there's gnu screen

[thin juniper]

and tmux

[shrewd spire]

so its a wm wm

well multiplexer window manager

[muted pike]

what

[maiden bloom]

what if this is astolfOS 🤨

[thin juniper]

no its literally just a bunch of terminals

its a terminal emulator

you have terminal 1 and terminal 2 and they both run fish because you should be using fish

[shrewd spire]

we need someone who can actually code to help with astolfOS

[maiden bloom]

im just gonna make my own stuff im lazy but not THAT laxy

[shrewd spire]

right now its a hyprland config

[muted pike]

BASH

[thin juniper]

its easier to just use alt + num

[maiden bloom]

oh nvm

[shrewd spire]

i beg u help us

[lethal lava]

what do we actually need to code tho

[maiden bloom]

ooh yes good idea i’ll add that to terminal linux

[maiden bloom]

userspace

[shrewd spire]

we need to fix a lotta things and swip to swaybg or swww

hyprpaper is having a lot of compatability issues with every vm ive tried

[lethal lava]

swww?

[maiden bloom]

guys pls stop talking about astolfOS here it’s offtopic!!

[lethal lava]

ok

[shrewd spire]

yeah

[carmine tide]

any linux but without desktop

!

shit i didnt read the project part

[maiden bloom]

lmao

[maiden bloom]

peak?

[coral oracle]

Not really

Thats only if you made the project for a specific purpose in mind

Hmm

Maybe you’ll wanna make a DE that runs in tty instead

[maiden bloom]

yes a TDE
im planning this

[maiden bloom]

btw should it be /bin/tde or /sbin/tde?

[coral oracle]

/usr/bin/tde

[maiden bloom]

/usr????

[coral oracle]

application binaries should install to /usr/bin if they are managed by the system package manager

otherwise they should install to /usr/local/bin

[maiden bloom]

bro tde is NOT an ordinary app 😭
apps run ON TOP of tde

[coral oracle]

it is still an application

like any DE its an application

[maiden bloom]

hm

[coral oracle]

only system essentials like coreutil installs to /bin

and /sbin is for sysadmin tools like fsck

[maiden bloom]

mmm ok

[coral oracle]

although technically speaking on most modern distros /bin is symblinked to /usr/bin

so the difference is only conceptual

but still

[maiden bloom]

/bin/tde it is coz i consider it an essential or else it would literally just be an ordinary terminal distro :P

[coral oracle]

thats not really how this works

you'll run into problems on a bunch of package managers if you install it to /bin

including arch i dont think arch lets packages touch /bin

yep

there it is

/bin conceptually speaking is only for essentials which are shells and coreutils and nothing else

[maiden bloom]

-# this is just a suggestion, right?

[coral oracle]

i guess anything said to you can be treated as a suggesting and you can invent your own convention

but people wont like it if you drift from the standard too much

[maiden bloom]

it's only tde going into /bin man 😭
that's basically all of the deviation
but understandable, people like linux distros the way they are and it's not fun to remember a new convention

[coral oracle]

its not about "not fun" its about there is no reason to

the current convention is pretty straightforward and wide accepted and there is no reason to adopt a new one

[coral oracle]

practically speaking there is no actual difference between putting in /bin or /usr/bin since /bin is likely gonna be symblinked to /usr/bin

but if you were to try to install to /bin in packages most package managers doesnt allow that

[maiden bloom]

but.. tde isn't a package if that's what ur thinking

[coral oracle]

its an app

apps can be packaged into packages

and thats how they are usually distributed

i guess you can argue that tde can be thought of as a shell but

[maiden bloom]

i think i wont have any problem with tde and package managers tbh
but thx for all the info

[coral oracle]

given the complexity of it exceeds what a shell is supposed to do that isnt really fitting

np

[maiden bloom]

-# and why won't i have a problem? it's pre-installed
-# so there is no installing to be done :D and no package managers to deal with yayyyy

also fun fact:
all the pre-installed binaries in my distro will have a src folder for their parent directory (yes even /sbin has a src folder for /sbin/init 😭)
so u can peek at how terribly i designed terminal linux yayyy

@coral oracle quick q: by coreutils u mean stuff like ls?

[coral oracle]

yes

stuff like ls mv cp mkdir cat

etc etc

[maiden bloom]

kk thx

[rotund light]

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[maiden bloom]

yep they deserve it

[rotund light]

[maiden bloom]

pardon my terrible writing (i write in cursive 🥀) but @opaque crown is this cool taskbar?

[opaque crown]

yes

[maiden bloom]

thx
-# it's tui btw 👍

[rotund light]

Austin received a thank you cookie!

[opaque crown]

nah, its good because its pui, paper user interface

[maiden bloom]

lmao

[dry sorrel]

is this project not just like.... a distro with just tty and a custom shell?

and a bunch of tui stuff?

[maiden bloom]

lol
it’ll have a text desktop environment with a neat lil taskbar and maybe even a window manager for multiple apps at once

but if that’s what u meant then i guess so

[dry sorrel]

a tui wm?

sounds interesting.

[maiden bloom]

i am a madlad after all

[dry sorrel]

ladmad

[maiden bloom]

a lad is mad

[maiden bloom]

yep im adding this as an image

[shrewd spire]

That's mine

[maiden bloom]

yes but can i add as image to terminal linux 👍