main
NOIR - Official Repositories (by noirlinux)
grepo
GKISS - A fork of KISS Linux that uses the GNU C library, mirror of https://codeberg.org/kiss-community/grepo (by kiss-community)
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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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.
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.
main
Posts with mentions or reviews of main.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-29.
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sowm | a minimalist experience
- os : noir - wm: sowm - wal: here - app: st, feh, fet.sh, polybar - zsh prompt: toledo
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When your kernel is just glue code between mlibc and limine
Check it out if it piques your interest https://github.com/noirlinux/main
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Wayland & X11 on same install?
Whilst trying to separate X from wayland I did run both of them successfully on noir before everything was split up. I run an X only system now.
grepo
Posts with mentions or reviews of grepo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-08.
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Crux vs. Kiss vs. Venom?
With Kiss, musl is used instead of glibc. That means you could have some troubles with some software. I have some troubles with a printer driver for example. I need to use an opensource version, but the driver is worse than the proprietary one. It works. I sometimes need libreoffice, but it's not packaged for kiss linux. To package it, it would be necessary to package a lot of dependencies. So it has not been done until now. If you really need glibc in Kiss, you can install a version with glibc in a chroot. There is a version with glibc instead musl. You could even install a version with glibc instead of musl. I think you can install some softwares with flatpak, for example libreoffice, but I have never done it. Someone else must confirm if it works.
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If I don't update for a while, would I have some repository related issues?
Be ready to not be able to run proprietary sofware (Widevine, Nvidia, Games) due to KISS using musl. Unless you know how to use gkiss, prepare to not run an ide and learn vim.
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My two cents about Void Musl
Although, there's nothing stopping you from using glibc with KISS Linux if you'd like -- I believe an example is GKISS if you'd like to take a further look.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing main and grepo you can also consider the following projects:
kiss-xorg - A KISS Linux Repository for Xorg
termux-archlinux - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Termux on Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/termux-archlinux/
MyLFS - A giant Bash script that builds Linux From Scratch 11.3
repo - KISS Linux - Official Repositories
chromium_os-raspberry_pi - Build your Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 4B, Pi400 and the latest Raspberry Pi 5
community - Officially unofficial KISS community repository, mirror of https://codeberg.org/kiss-community/community
community - KISS - Community Repository (temporarily closed for maintenance)
backyard - Rotting kiss/carbs packages