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| Tin Can Linux, a distro made from Scraps I Found On The Internet (TM). |
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Tin Can Linux is an independent hobby distribution made with the goal of being
compact, understandable, hackable, and easy to maintain.
=== Goals
=========
Here are some of my goals for the Tin Can Linux project. These may change over
time as the project grows and develops:
- Provide a working desktop environment with a minimal browser
- Keep the system reasonably compact (fewer packages, less bloaty stuff)
- Maintain a set of repositories that is as small as possible while achieving
the aforementioned goals (to ensure that I can reasonably keep this alive)
=== Package Management
======================
Tin Can Linux uses the Arc package manager (also a creation of my own). It
functions somewhat similarly to the kiss package manager but is notably
different in several ways. Read more about it at @/wiki/arc.
=== Filesystem
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The filesystem is inspired by sta.li. The main difference from most distros is
the choice to replace /usr with a symlink to /. The directories are as follows:
/bin - executables
/boot - boot files
/dev - devices
/etc - system config
/home - all user directories (including root)
/include - include & header files
/lib - static / dynamic libs
/opt - yucky stuff (nothing yet!)
/proc - proc files
/run - mountpoint for runfs
/sbin - symlink to /bin
/share - man pages, other package files
/sys - sys files
/tmp - mountpoint for tmpfs
/usr - symlink to /
/var - services, package repos, installed packages, misc filesystems
See more about these choices at @/wiki/filesystem.
=== Contributing
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See the github. Different parts of the project have slightly different
contribution guidelines.
=== Inspiration
===============
Tin Can Linux was inspired by and made possible by the following amazing
projects (in no particular order):
- Mussel (https://github.com/firasuke/mussel)
- StaLi (https://sta.li)
- Linux from Scratch (https://linuxfromscratch.org)
- Kiss Linux (https://kisslinux.github.io)
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