Hello, I'm the author of the Pure Bash Bible. Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Here's an example of what bash is capable of: https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff/ (a TUI file manager written in bash)!
Here's an example of what bash is capable of: https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff/ (a TUI file manager written in bash)!
Upon checkout you need to confirm the sale via a email sent to the email address provided by you.
I may be the exception and granted - it's basically due to a very crappy phone on which email ceased to work - but I was not able to finalize the sale since I'm not able to access my private email remotely.
I sent myself the link and will probably give it another shot from home. But you may want to take it up with the seller that there are folks out there for which this is not really a convenient way to close a sale. Especially not after entering valid credit card information.
Thanks for letting me know and apologies for the inconvenience.
I'm probably anyway the exception nowadays not being able to access private email remotely. But what you may point out to them is that it may be worthwhile to think through their checkout process. Also for their own benefit and the benefit of other authors
As I said I sent the link to myself and if I don't forget will buy it from home.
I really like to support you and your efforts and it looks like an awesome resource for somebody using bash a lot.
The hacks (as a 30+ year sh / ksh / bash user) are indeed Very Cool.
Did you just decide one day that you have to write a distribution from scratch? What was the thought process, and how complicated is it actually. Also, I'd like to contribute if there's a chance.
Thanks, I appreciate it! :)
> Did you just decide one day that you have to write a distribution from scratch?
Pretty much. I'd been distro hopping for some time and wasn't happy with any of the choices in front of me.
I wanted something that could run without `dbus`, `glibc`, `systemd`, `wayland`, `polkit`, `elogind`, etc etc and none of the other distributions could provide this.
Even Gentoo through their arms in the air when Firefox 69 broke the `--disable-dbus` configure flag (and added a mandatory dependency on `dbus`).
I instead spent the hours patching `dbus` out of Firefox 69 and that's how I ship it in KISS. https://github.com/kisslinux/repo/blob/master/extra/firefox/...
> What was the thought process
Start from zero and build piece by piece questioning each step along the way. Is this needed? Are there alternatives? Can we do this in a "simpler" way? Step away, come back to it later and ask "was this right?", "can we trim back the fat?".
This repeated until things were effectively "done".
> and how complicated is it actually
No piece of software seems to list its (mandatory) dependencies properly so it was a trial and error of figuring out _exactly_ what each piece of software needs.
Looking at other distributions themselves wasn't much help as they list a lot of "optional" dependencies as "required".
There's also no (or very little) documentation online for how to write a package manager or Linux distribution from scratch.
It's been a tedious but rewarding process thus far. I'm talking to you from KISS right now! It feels good to turn on my laptop and be running a distribution I created from scratch. :)
> Also, I'd like to contribute if there's a chance.
Go for it! In terms of contribution there's bug reporting, fixing documentation, adding missing packages, fixing bugs in existing packages etc.
Hop on IRC (#kisslinux @ freenode.net) if you'd like to chat. :)
I can see now that there's a clear interest in a release in physical form. I'll start seriously looking into it. :)