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DECOMISSIONING!

This repo will be decommissioned soon in favor of the Hacktop project. But don't worry. Like the GitHub website, it too will be in a sleeker, more organized format.

Welcome to the Rigel wiki!

About Rigel

Thanks to Github, many resources that were scattered among different websites have found a common ground.

The Rigel Linuxes will be Slackware-ish, in that you install theme from sources rather than binaries. Slackware Linux borrowed quite a bit of BSD philosophy to create an amazing distro, but at the same time the Slackware guys have been a bit resistant to changes because of some of the changes in GNU governance.

Personally, I don't give a care. Most of the arguing has been between a few of the elder GNU Neckbeards who still like a lot of the old Unix ways verses the younger Linux geeks who want to redefine the OS with more efficient components.

I would rather use this wiki to list all the resources that you'll probably want to collect off of Github, and also some of the more graphical documentation that a man page sometimes can't describe.

Most of this wiki is dedicated to gathering the Resources that can be used to make a Linux From Scratch where you don't worry about needing to configure stuff at compile-time, but can make changes as you go while RUNNING the software.

Rigel is designed for [single-board computers](Single-board computer). Odroid and [Raspberry Pi](Raspberry Pi) for the most part. But if anyone with Beagleboard or Arduino experience wants to join in that would also be great. (Assuming I look over any past projects you've done.)

Betcha didn't know

• In many cases, downloading from source is equivalent to downloading a binary distro version of some software's lib and div packages which are often packaged separately.
• Writing a Linux man page is much more efficent than using Doxygen or some bloated wiki like help system that you'll never look at. (It's the motivation as to why we use Pasadena instead of Compton. This page is like the Cliff Notes version. And This page is more like the middle ground between that, with good examples.

Things I'd like to do

• 256 Color Palette for terminals. (URXVT delivers!)
• High Contrast alternatives to the dimly lit [Solarized](Why Solarized is bad) themes that although "easy on the eyes" are hard to see and COMPLETELY ruin a lot of colorful ASCII art.
• Airline themes for Vim, Tmux, IRSSI.
• SPF13-like behavior with Vim without the drama. (I feel that SPF13 has hijacked how Vim should work, which makes me nervous about adding other plugins that aren't part of SPF13.)
• Transparency for Fluxbox. (See Project Pasadena.)
• Fixing the sound-bug on the Odroid U3. Form some reason, I can either have sound and a wonky looking 640x480 desktop or no sound and 720p HD resolution according the the guys at the Odroid forums. What they say is a "hardware problem" is more of a software problem of which there can and should be a way to have both sound and good picture.