Suckless.org

suckless.org is a group of programmers that work on minimalist (small) free software. The software is made to be as simple as possible. The group makes programs that closely follow the UNIX philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well".

 History 
Anselm R. Garbe started the suckless community.

In 2007, Garbe said there's a need for a "Plan 9 lover's and C hacker Ubuntu" which comes with the tools needed to create code in C. He suggested calling it 9ubuntu. Later, suckless made stali (Static Linux). Stali is an operating system with statically linked programs that can be run. It adheres to the suckless rules.

The program making team follows the rule that "worse is better". They follow the KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid").

 Notable projects 

 dwm - window manager
 dmenu - keyboard-controlled menu tool
 ii - IRC program
 sbase - UNIX core utilities (essential tools)
 surf - web browser
 wmii - window manager
 st - terminal emulator
 stali - Linux distrubution

 Meet-ups 
In 2013, the suckless.org community started planning yearly meet-ups.https://suckless.org/conferences/

 suckless.org e.V. 
In 2015, the legal entity suckless.org e.V. was created. It was created during a suckless meet-up. Its goal is helping suckless.org and other open source projects.

Related pages

 Plan 9 from Bell Labs

 References 

 Other websites 

 Official website
 Subreddit

Category:Free software
Category:Websites established in 2002