resources

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. And would rather use this page to list all the resources that you'll probably want to collect off of Github.

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.

The Software!

Non-Git Sources

• GCC - I was thinking clang, but I really like to stick with what I know and use GCC

• PERL

• Python - Just to be safe, download versions 2 and 3.

• cURL - this should also include libcurl.

• CPython

• CMake

• Clang? - I'm still on the fence about this. Unless you want to make a BSD-like version of this, In that case you'll need to use the BSD Kernel instead of the Linux kernel.

Git Sources

• The Linux Kernel - Maintained by the creator of Linux himself, Linus Torvalds!

• GLIB

  • glib-networking

• GTK+

• Vala

• libsoup

• Network Manager

  • Network Manger Applet

• Fluxbox

• ncurses

• libevents

• libnotify

• Vim

• Tmux

• URXVT a.k.a. rxvt-unicode

• IRSSI - Chat client

Post installation suggestions

• Ruby from RVM.io
• Node from Node.js