components.md

Component List

See also Packages

User Interface

• Fish Shell for maximum user-friendlyness.
  • Bash Shell is only kept for compatibility and scripting reasons.
• tmux
  • Because tiling window managers are good - and tiling terminals are better.
  • Allows for switching between applications and flexible, on-the-fly adjustment of the terminal.
• Dialog for any interactive configuration.
• tasksel-alike setup.
• a Moo Menu-inspired "Startmenu" / Homescreen for fast and easy access to files and tools.
• an extensive list of preconfigured aliases and Functions.
  • detecting drives & filesystems as well as (dis-)mounting them.
  • creating a RAM-Disk as well as backing up & restoring data to and from it.

Essentials for Users

• OpenSSH Client & Server
• GnuPG ForEncryption and Authentification via Digital Signatures
• btop system monitor.
• Communication
  • Lynx Browser
  • mutt eMail Client
  • WeeChat IRC Client
  • Profanity XMPP Client
  • Zulip Terminal Client

Various Backup & Restore tools

• duplicity
• borg
• rdiff-backup
• pax
  • tar is being shipped for compatibility purposes.
• bzip2 for efficient compression.

Core Components

• Kernel
  • Linux Kernel
    • LTS Versions prefered
• System Managment & Init
  • SystemD
    • Because noone wants to suffer through SystemVinit.
      • Also because it's superior.
• Bootloaders
  • SystemD-Boot on (U)EFI-based systems.
  • GRUB2 on non-(U)EFI - Systems.
  • U-boot on SBCs and other devices.
  • isolinux for LiveCD & LiveUSB systems.
• Userland
  • BSD Userland & Toolchain
    • Clang/LLVM

Filesystem Support

• OpenZFS support.
  • Simply because ZFS is an excellent filesystem for huge amounts of data.
    • Tho the system will usually default to ext4 with ext2 as option to reduce writes and keep performance good.
• UFS, LTFS, ISO9660
• ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs
• NFS, CIFS, iSCSI
• other filesystems will be supported via FUSE
  • including IPFS
  • SSHFS
  • & NTFS
• LVM with dmraid, dm-crypt & LUKS are ofc supported.
  • Option for fully-encrypted (except bootloader ofc!) as well as just /home or individual /home/user filesystems is possible and easy to setup.
    • This is espechally desireable for SBCs and well as Notebooks, Netbooks and public Terminals.
• VeraCrypt may be packaged and distributed as "extra" package.

Networking

• Drivers for modern WiFi & Ethernet Devices
• VPN Support
  • OpenVPN
  • WireGuard
  • SSH-Tunneling
• Obfuscation
  • Tor
    • Support for OpenVPN-over-Tor = VPN-Endpoint is an Onion Service
      • This should only be used to access a private network, not as a means to anonymize internet connections.
      • It may however be used to circumvent restrictions and general assholeism aka. banning Tor users outright.