doas
Port of OpenBSD's doas(1) to Linux systems (by multiplexd)
velox
velox window manager (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.
velox
Posts with mentions or reviews of velox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.
- Velox is a simple window manager based on swc
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Wayland section in site
velox https://github.com/michaelforney/velox
- What does the suckless Community think of Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
Combine this with the velox dwm-inspired window manager and you have yourself a full graphical wayland environment in about 12k sloc. I don't really see a reason to keep xorg so I will be purging it from all of my machines.
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X is Boomer
Combine this with the velox tiling-wm (2897 sloc), and you have a full, hackable tiling wm in about 13k Lines of static C code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing doas and velox you can also consider the following projects:
Vim - The official Vim repository
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
swc - a library for making a simple Wayland compositor
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
lel - farbfeld x11 image viewer
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
samurai - ninja-compatible build tool written in C
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg