Arcan, in contrast, is very much concerned with network operations, as well as innovative new UI developments. Wayland discards core functionality from X11, such as operation over the network, and instead seems to focus on high refresh rates and banishing display artifacts such as tearing – things that here at The Reg FOSS desk we frankly don't care about. As an example, compare its stated security position in 2010 and now. I knew I needed a shell eventually for the larger OS project, but it was written more to make sure the rest of the infrastructure was solid.Īs we noted in June, despite it being a decade since version 1.0, the Wayland display server has yet to displace X.org. The meat isn't actually the shell itself it was thrown together fairly rapidly, and I added as much scaffolding as I could to encourage others to leverage the same infrastructure in order to try out their own ideas, hence the "Lash#" part of the naming. Durden is built in Lua, as described in the build instructions.
Some of it is supplied as part of the Void Linux distro, as well as in the radical NixOS distro, so those may be good places to start. It's all open source, but as Arcan's README notes, it's quite complex to build. Cat9 works on top of a display server called Arcan, as part of the Durden desktop environment. In contrast, consider Classic MacOS, which had no command line at all, causing serious confusion to 21st century techies.Ī good way to get a flavor of Cat9 are the demo videos in the release announcement. Ubuntu 22.10 is out, with an extra remix in the family: UnityĬat9 is not like anything else in the world of modern Linux, which is a very traditional environment, firmly rooted in 1960s minicomputer design.
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