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-This is the Carbs Linux blog index. You can find every post here. [[file:../rss.xml][RSS Feed]]
-- [[file:20201210.org][First Year of Carbs Linux]] /posted on 2020-12-10/
-- [[file:20200803.org][August 2020 News Post]] /posted on 2020-08-03/
-- [[file:20200617.org][June Newspost]] /posted on 2020-06-17/
-- [[file:20200528.org][kiss 2.0.0 and Overall Changes]] /posted on 2020-05-28/
-- [[file:20200508.org][The Relation of Carbs and KISS]] /posted on 2020-05-08/
-- [[file:20200410.org][Outsource Repository Concept]] /posted on 2020-04-10/
-- [[file:20200406.org][Roadmap for Carbs]] /posted on 2020-04-06/
-- [[file:20200128.org][Switching to New Website]] /posted on 2020-01-28/
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-#+TITLE: Carbs Linux blog
-#+DESCRIPTION: a simple Linux distribution
-
-* First Year of Carbs Linux
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20201210.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-12-10
-:ID: 675c108e-10d5-46b1-9fc5-d3d3b41e7726
-:END:
-December 10, 2020 marks the first year after the initial release of Carbs Linux.
-When I forked the KISS Linux repository on the 9th of December, I was fairly new
-to package management. Carbs Linux used to be almost identical to KISS Linux. A
-lot has changed since then:
-
-[2020 Jan 13] Replaced default init system to =sinit=
-[2020 Jan 15] Packaged =WebKit2GTK=
-[2020 May 17] Added =bearssl= on the testing repository
-[2020 May 28] Added =rsync= repository support to kiss
-[2020 Jun 03] Replaced =bison= with =byacc=
-[2020 Jun 11] Replaced =libressl= with =bearssl=
-[2020 Jun 24] Replaced =kiss= with =cpt=
-
-I have really enjoyed maintaining and developing this distribution, and I want
-to thank everyone who was involved in some way or another. While I have slowed
-down in development due to college workload, I am still actively maintaining all
-the packages on the repository. I do have some ideas that I am thinking of
-implementing during the semester break. Hope to see you all in January.
-* August 2020 News Post
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200803.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-08-03
-:ID: bb30fdcc-88ed-49e7-93ee-f67b870031c6
-:END:
-We are having some stalls during this summer, as I am currently working on
-university-related stuff. Nonetheless, there are some important changes that I
-want to share in this month's post.
-
-#+toc: headlines 1 local
-
-** Carbs Packaging Tools
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 3d410aeb-3a3e-4239-929d-2fb577888b80
- :END:
-
-This month I have reworked =kiss= into a new package manager, now renamed as
-=cpt=. Updating =kiss= will now bootstrap the new package manager, so you don't
-have to manually edit your system. If you don't like the idea of this, you can
-look up the =post-install= script on =core/kiss= and apply the changes manually.
-
-You will also need to rename your =KISS_*= variables to =CPT_*=. So, =KISS_PATH=
-becomes =CPT_PATH=.
-
-The rework changes the previous commands on the package manager into standalone
-tools, and move the package manager functions to a library. This makes it easier
-for a user to import functions and variables from the package manager, and
-extend the package manager with their own intended way. Previously this required
-ugly hacks and workarounds to use the package manager functions. I will be
-making use of these changes to re-implement binary package management functions
-as well.
-
-If you want to use the library on your script you can simply do this:
-
-#+begin_src sh
- #!/bin/sh
- . cpt-lib
- (...)
-#+end_src
-
-There are obviously some clean-up and simplifications needed in this new
-tool-based package management method.
-
-** Docs
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: fa69f4b3-6b22-4ebe-80cc-0e7a9eb94fb3
- :END:
-
-I have added documentation for the distribution, and finally updated the guide
-for installation. It is now /almost/ complete. These docs can be installed to
-your system for online viewing. I will also add a documentation crawler similar
-to how werc works (but as an offline viewer). You can find =carbs-docs= from
-the repository. Currently, the documentation lacks but I will be adding new
-stuff. These will solely be distribution specific documentation and will not be
-a wiki-like source. If anyone would like to contribute to a wiki-like
-documentation source, I would happily re-open the distribution wiki. You can
-find the source on [[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/docs]].
-
-** Re-opening the Carbs Linux server
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 01c7351d-4a89-4039-a5ba-2dde3f8a9dca
- :END:
-
-Back in May, I had shutdown the Carbs Linux server due to financial issues, but
-I am slowly reverting to the self-hosted model. Back then, the git repositories
-were mirrored to GitHub, and the management was overall much more flexible. The
-server used to run Carbs Linux as well (that was fun and horrifying at the same
-time). Now, I will be relaunching the git server which will be the upstream
-source before August 5. You can switch your remote, but GitHub will stay as a
-remote nonetheless.
-
-*EDIT:* The git-server is up!
-* June Newspost
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200617.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-06-17
-:ID: 4168855b-e76e-4f8f-803d-b4034152c734
-:END:
-This will be an active month for Carbs as major changes to the base and the
-package manager will be coming up.
-
-** Statically linking the base
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 558e3a55-78ea-45ff-a299-c27e0391744f
- :END:
-
-For the past couple of weeks I have been trying to simplify the base and
-statically link the core (mostly binaries rather than libraries). I usually see
-some people extremely opposed to static linking as I also see the opposite on
-people.
-
-I believe that binaries on the core should always be linked statically. This
-ensures that an SONAME bump to =libObscure.so= will not break the core
-functionality of your system, forcing you to use external resources to recover
-from such an issue. As long as you can compile, use core utilities, edit text,
-and access the web, you can solve any given issue on your system.
-
-However, I don't think that removing shared libraries is sensible either. Not
-every piece of software out there is good quality enough to be statically
-linked.
-
-** Major changes on the core repository
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: eb4a6712-9853-4b5f-8978-f85fef463a40
- :END:
-
-There have been drastic changes to the core repository and the base rootfs this
-month (with more on the way). Right now changes are as follows.
-
-*** Removed from Core
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 271cdfd8-5e0c-43c5-8ddb-1a162bcfb7ed
- :END:
-=git=
-=libressl=
-=grub=
-=bison=
-=dhcpcd=
-=ubase=
-
-*** Added to Core
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: a7f46eb4-e41d-438e-9858-68a5c5b20f4a
- :END:
-=bearssl=, as a =libressl= replacement
-=byacc=, as a =bison= replacement
-
-*** Statically linked
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: f19dd4ac-438b-47c3-bbe7-ba87085027be
- :END:
-=kiss=
-=neatvi=
-=mandoc=
-=byacc=
-=m4=
-=e2fsprogs=
-=make=
-=pkgconf=
-=sbase=
-=libnl=
-=wpa_supplicant=
-=bearssl=
-
-** Making the wiki available offline
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: e8613bd1-b09e-4f12-9c3f-129d70fb7f43
- :END:
-
-Soon, all documentation regarding Carbs Linux will be avaialable to be installed
-from the core repository in a =carbs-docs= package along with its own document
-crawler. Currently, the documentation regarding the installation process is a
-little outdated which will also receive some important updates.
-
-** ISO image for Carbs
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 88169788-702b-46a3-b2ec-909e98caae92
- :END:
-
-I am thinking of releasing an ISO image in order to provide a standardized
-environment for installation along with installation helper tools in the spirit
-of =arch-install-scripts=. Let's see how that's going to play out.
-* kiss 2.0.0 and Overall Changes
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200528.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-05-28
-:ID: 9b4e3b5d-7177-405b-9d1e-bc385a232097
-:END:
-Carbs Linux kiss version 2.0.0 has been released which introduces rsync
-repositories.
-
-Git is no longer a mandatory dependency for the package manager, every git
-source on the core repository has been replaced with https sources (sbase,
-sinit), and rootfs tarballs will no longer ship with git. Repositories in the
-upcoming tarball will be rsync repositories.
-
-Git is now on the =extra= repository and is still (optionally) used in the
-package manager.
-
-The idea behind this change is size reductions and increased speed with rsync.
-As I said on the previous post, git repositories get larger and larger over the
-time span. Currently my personal copy of the git repository is around 77MB and I
-have forked KISS Linux (as a shallow copy) around December. Obviously, I have
-commits that I ommitted. I tend to create commits I dislike, which I change with
-=git reset --soft HEAD^=, which doesn't actually remove the commits, etc. A user
-will have a repository much smaller than mine.
-
-This is a precaution with the added bonuses of speed and dropping a mandatory
-dependency.
-
-You can see the rest of the changelog [[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md][here]].
-
-** Binary Repositories
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 04f63c53-9a98-4a50-ab6e-bc07f79f1cd7
- :END:
-
-A few days ago, I have also published [[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss-bin][kiss-bin]], a first version for managing
-binary repositories. Currently, there are some caveats that I'll be fixing along
-the way. I decided not to include this in the package manager natively as
-managing the source based and binary based packages together adds levels of
-complexity that we do not want. Instead, this is an extension for kiss which
-sources the package manager as a library. I hope to see it being adopted by
-others interested on the matter as well.
-* The Relation of Carbs and KISS
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200508.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-05-08
-:ID: 30deff4f-04e4-4065-874e-2425833eb92a
-:END:
-Since I have forked KISS, I have received many questions that can be summarized
-as "Why?". I have realized that I never truly answered this question. That's the
-reason I am writing this post, to give some background on Carbs, and some
-differences between KISS Linux and Carbs Linux for anyone who may be wondering.
-Perhaps I could make this a "FAQ" page later on.
-
-** History
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 2381e690-6420-49b4-a594-8963f3f37d34
- :END:
-
-I had the idea of creating my own Linux distribution since the May of 2019. Back
-then, I had my own [[https://linuxfromscratch.org][Linux from Scratch]] build, and I wanted to slim it down my
-own way and replace the software (with musl,sbase,etc.). The name Carbs Linux
-was in my mind since then. I wanted to write my own package manager, but I
-wasn't satisfied with anything I had built.
-
-I had written some incomplete package managers (all named =fat=) and I quickly
-threw them into the trash can, where they honestly belonged. I would want to
-share them with you for laughs, but my hard-drive got wiped and I have a problem
-of not doing an "initial commit" until a program I write is in a usable state.
-
-I have obtained the 'carbslinux.org' domain name in September 2019, but then
-life got on the way, and I stopped for a long time.
-
-One day on Reddit, I saw Dylan's post on [[https://reddit.com/r/unixporn][r/unixporn]] about KISS, and I really
-thought that it was interesting. Here is my [[https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ducd34/sowm_kiss_d/f7lua7x][comment]] to Dylan on that post. I
-checked out the package manager and the repository. The packaging system was
-extremely clean and well-thought. I decided to give it a go and fork KISS.
-
-** Differences between KISS and Carbs
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: f2663118-0d66-44de-8465-0b13188147fc
- :END:
-
-Now, I still baffle when people ask me this question. My intention was never to
-create a distribution with specific differences between KISS. My intention was
-being my own BDFL of a distribution I maintain. There are lots of differences
-between the main repositories, but they are subtle and not worth talking about.
-I personally never even installed KISS Linux on my system. So Carbs, isn't
-something like a downstream fork of KISS, it is just a distribution that was
-initially based on KISS.
-
-I try to contribute as much as I can to KISS Linux. I think that it is a
-brilliant distribution, and it was a great starting point for Carbs. I am really
-grateful to Dylan and all the other contributors.
-
-** What I'm working on now
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: ae507544-f27e-423c-b760-4904e822bd7e
- :END:
-
-Currently I have a few projects that I'm working on for Carbs. These are,
-
-A BSD port for Carbs. For a while, I have been working on BSD compatibility on
-my fork of the [package manager]. I have tested, without any more issues, on
-OpenBSD and FreeBSD. The biggest issues remaining are choosing a vendor for BSD,
-packaging the BSD source, and providing a minimal base (like busybox for BSD).
-If you aren't familiar with BSD, it has a single source code for all of the
-utilities (kernel, command line programs, etc.). Contributions (even chipping in
-ideas) are very welcome.
-
-Adding binary package distribution support natively to the package manager.
-Biggest issue in small/old computers are compile times. This feature is for the
-bigger packages such as webkit, clang, llvm that take a considerable amount of
-time. Some computers with low memories cannot even compile firefox/webkit.
-
-Adding rsync repository support to the package manager. This is not a current
-issue, but rather a futureproofing. As time passes, distribution repositories
-grow larger. KISS and Carbs are young distributions without this problem right
-now. But in something like 5 years, this size will presumably increase to
-hundreds of megabytes. At that point it will be pointless to have the repository
-sources unless you specifically need them.
-
-** What's up with all the init/service daemons?
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: f38b625b-abbb-4eaf-8a88-009e6dda9eb0
- :END:
-
-If you have ever checked the [[https://github.com/carbslinux/repository][repository]], you may have noticed that there are
-lots of init/service related packages. I have had my fair share of time with all
-of them, and it is an area that I am really interested in. I have even written
-my own [[https://github.com/cemkeylan/shinit][init daemon]] and [[https://github.com/cemkeylan/sysmgr][service supervisor]]. I maintain all those packages on KISS
-Community Repository as well with the exception of busybox. Those are, =busybox
- init/runit=, =runit=, =sinit=, and =sysmgr=. I would definitely recommend
-checking out =shinit= and =sysmgr=.
-
-** Why I don't publicize Carbs
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 85011e8b-9810-482c-9d32-d34649cb0656
- :END:
-
-There are a couple of reasons I don't publicize Carbs a lot.
-
-KISS is the better alternative in terms of support and community. I work on
-maintaining this distribution just as hard as Dylan, but in the end, Carbs is
-based on his original hard work, and I believe that he deserves the recognition
-more than I do.
-
-Since I cannot answer questions like "What is the difference?", I prefer staying
-as the silent sibling project of KISS Linux. Plus, there is no point in dividing
-the newly-emerging community in half.
-
-That's not because I don't have ideas for the future of Carbs, I do. I just
-think that I will deserve the recognition once those above lists are checked.
-
-I think that's about it, if you have questions you can send me a mail, ping me
-on IRC (my handle is =merakor=), and I will be happy to answer. Maybe your
-question fits this post, and I can update it to thoroughly give an explanation.
-* Outsource Repository Concept
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200410.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-04-10
-:ID: 3f31b269-5607-4cd9-8e52-df3f7bd83d50
-:END:
-In April 3rd, I have added submodule support for Carbs Linux's fork of =kiss=.
-Now, from that sentence, it really doesn't sound exciting at all. But in
-reality, it opens a path to lots of creative output, and a better way to manage
-multi-user repositories (such as KISS Community).
-
-When managing a repository of submodules, the repository maintainer's only job
-is to deal with adding packages. A package maintainer doesn't have to wait for
-the repository maintainer to update their packages, as they are only making the
-changes to their own repositories.
-
-This way, an end-user can also track from their preferred maintainers, and do
-that with the tidyness of a single repository in their =KISS_PATH=.
-
-Carbs Linux now has an outsource repository for some packages. Firefox and its
-dependencies have been purged from the main repository, but can be found on it.
-
-[[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/outsource]]
-* Roadmap for Carbs
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200406.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-04-06
-:ID: 9749c9ce-264b-47bf-a740-4e118eb30a4b
-:END:
-It has been a busy week. There are lots of changes in direction, and more to
-come. I want to talk a little about all of them.
-
-** Carbs Linux Server Going Down
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 95817833-8d4f-4560-b04c-9261d7806841
- :END:
-
-It became harder to maintain and pay for the server, and I will be shutting it
-down in May. I am currently in the phase of carrying over everything to [[https://github.com/CarbsLinux][Github]].
-The repository and the website is served on Github now. I have also moved the
-[[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/wiki/wiki][Wiki]] to Github and anyone can edit it there. There are some outdated posts that
-I will be fixing around this week.
-
-I am not quite sure where to store the downloads page now. But I will be
-switching that to a new source as well. (Maybe SourceHut?)
-
-I feel a little sad for switching, but serving on Github is faster, cheaper, and
-hassle-free.
-
-** Forking KISS
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 1a806630-59d8-467e-aa3a-93ff42e0e974
- :END:
-
-I had a personal fork of KISS, which I enjoyed thoroughly. I didn't intend to
-make it the default when I started it, but it has matured enough to be so. The
-package manager can now be found on [[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss][this repository]]. See it for the added
-changes.
-
-This will be a change for the better, as I can develop the package manager as it
-fits my views.
-
-** Small Changes on the Website
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: e836ba6a-b2eb-4ade-b4ad-3b6281797ea5
- :END:
-
-I have made some small changes on the website. The build is not dependent on
-Plan9 utilities anymore. It was fun messing around with =rc= and =mk=, but they
-are quite limited compared to POSIX shell.
-
-RSS feeds are finally working as intended, both for the [[https://carbslinux.org/news.xml][news]] section, and the
-[[https://carbslinux.org/rss.xml][blog]] section.
-
-You can see every page's =.txt= output at the end of the page by clicking 'View
-Page Source'. Meanwhile, I will be updating some pages to be a little more
-'human-readable'.
-
-** Outsources Repository
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 1491c3a9-613a-4833-8812-d73017dfbc20
- :END:
-
-I have opened an =outsource= repository, which I will be pushing this week. I
-will add a new post when I am ready to push it. I think it will be interesting,
-it will also make more sense about the changes I have added to the package
-manager. The now empty repository, can be found [[https://github.com/CarbsLinux/outsource][here]]!
-
-** New Tarball
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 4511ac0a-205c-4abd-b10d-08096be6eabe
- :END:
-
-Finally, I have released a new tarball today, which can be obtained from the
-[[https://dl.carbslinux.org/releases][downloads page]].
-
-I am planning to add more of these update posts as I'm feeling better about the
-website structure overall.
-* Switching to New Website
-:PROPERTIES:
-:RSS_PERMALINK: 20200128.html
-:PUBDATE: 2020-01-28
-:ID: 7062c433-adc4-44e9-b179-51e97941c09c
-:END:
-In case you haven't seen it before, this website was powered by [[http://werc.cat-v.org][werc]]. And even
-though I liked it really much, it was too powerful for a small website like
-this.
-
-So I have decided to reimplement this website with my own static generation
-scripts. The source will probably be on [[https://git.carbslinux.org/website/log.html][its git repository]] when I decide to
-publish the website.
-
-The generation requires Plan9 programs, although I have used them just for my
-enthusiasm. I have built the site with a combination of mk (instead of make),
-rc, and POSIX sh. I am not yet exactly familiar with rc, but I will replace the
-shell scripts when I feel like I can.