Slash Linux - Repository

An experimental Linux distribution, based on KISS, focused on performance and minimalism.

Note

This repository is not compatible with the KISS package manager. You will need to use the Slash package manager.

Why another distribution?

I have always wanted to create my own distribution because it fascinates me. This repository also has some changes, including:

• every package is built using ThinLTO
• no static libraries
• reduced dependencies

I cannot thank KISS and WyverKISS enough for the work they have done, without them this distribution would not exist.

Usage

If you want to use this repository, you will have to do a few things.

Change your build environment variables

All packages in this repository are supposed to be built using O3 and ThinLTO. Your build flags should look like this:

# Add "-falign-functions=32" if you have an Intel CPU.
export COMMON_FLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe -flto=thin"
export CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
export CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"

export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O3 -Wl,--as-needed ${COMMON_FLAGS}"

BASE_FLAGS and BASE_LDFLAGS are used as a fallback for packages that cannot be built with ThinLTO due to build failures.

Enable this repository

To use this repository, you will have to change your SLASH_PATH. It should look like this:

export SLASH_PATH=PATH/TO/REPO/core
export SLASH_PATH=$SLASH_PATH:PATH/TO/REPO/extra
export SLASH_PATH=$SLASH_PATH:PATH/TO/REPO/gnu

# Remove this if you do not want to use a window manager.
export SLASH_PATH=$SLASH_PATH:PATH/TO/REPO/desktop

Enable the hooks

Because it would be tedious to remove all static libraries per-package, we have created hooks that will do this. To use them:

export SLASH_HOOK=PATH/TO/REPO/hooks/clean-files
export SLASH_HOOK=$SLASH_HOOK:PATH/TO/REPO/hooks/remove-static-libraries

Troubleshooting

In case a package fails to build, please open an issue on this repository.