doas
Port of OpenBSD's doas(1) to Linux systems (by multiplexd)
swc
a library for making a simple Wayland compositor (by michaelforney)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
doas
Posts with mentions or reviews of doas.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.
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A simple guide for configuring sudo and doas
persist : don't prompt the user to type the password again after some time (potentially unsafe)
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xorg sucks, use swc
Other: doas (opendoas package on void) in place of sudo, 9front or plan9 and factotum in place of Linux and PAM.
swc
Posts with mentions or reviews of swc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-20.
- Swc is a small Wayland compositor implemented as a library
- Suckless and Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
swc is a wayland compositor library implementation in about 10k sloc.
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X is Boomer
HOLY SHIT, I spent a couple days playing around, researching wayland, theres a library SWC that implements the core parts of wayland in 10K LINES OF REALLY SIMPLE CODE WITH ALMOST NO DEPENDENCIES.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing doas and swc you can also consider the following projects:
Vim - The official Vim repository
velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.
velox - velox window manager
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
lel - farbfeld x11 image viewer
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
samurai - ninja-compatible build tool written in C
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)