Hey Linux People,
After a 12 months of incubation and wrestle, the primary model of Metis Linux 0.1 has been launched with much less bloatware and simply the stuff you want.
Metis Linux Intro
Metis Linux is an artix based mostly tremendous quick, light-weight,easy and versatile distribution that makes use of runit as an init system [ simply no systemD ] & tremendous tiny scripts to put in & handle the entire working system.
Began as a passion venture by a 17 y/o Nepalese kiddo Nabeen Tiwaree along with his fellow mates Yogesh Lamichhane and Safal Piya.
Our implementations are written from shell and C/C++. Metis Linux is POSIX suitable, which implies our venture may be simply moveable to some other working system.
Metis Linux goals at offering a surprising expertise to new Tiling Window Supervisor customers, it supplies a straightforward gateway to the tiling window supervisor world with sane configs and keybinds which can be simple and memorable.
The Metis Linux group needs to make tiling window managers much less intimidating by offering a refined expertise out of the field.
Options
Quick and light-weight
Suckless’s easy packages are used wherever potential. Utilizing DWM with solely absolutely the required packages makes the working system tremendous minimalistic and solely makes use of about 250 MBs of reminiscence at boot that makes the OS tremendous productive.
Easy and Free
If something may be easy, let’s simply simplify it. Our implementations must be written from shell and C/C++, and we love usable and easy bundle implementations, that are all freely obtainable in Github.
systemd-less
Said by the unix philosophy, Make every program do one factor nicely, systemd contains many options that we by no means use; making the init system sophisticated. So RunIt is our init system of alternative.
POSIX suitable
We wish our venture may be simply moveable to different working methods.
Default Packages
Metis Linux ships with following packages by default.
– Textual content Editor: nvim (Neo-VIM)
– Window Supervisor: DWM (Dynamic Window Supervisor)
– Terminal: ST (suckless terminal or easy termimnal)
– Screenshot utility: Scrot
– Bar: SlStatu
– Software Launcher: Dmenu
– brillo: Backlight (brightness) controller
– Pulseaudio: Audio Server for linux (will change to pipewire on subsequent launch)
– JetBrains Mono Nerd Font
– Firefox as default browser
Thanks for studying…
