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Version: 1.9.11

Rating: 10

Date: 2020-06-14

Votes: 1





Benefits

Its refreshing to be able to read and understand all of /etc in a short afternoon.

Docs are installed and available as plain text in /usr/share/doc/kiss/

BDFL is open-minded to ideas, often implementing them in a matter of minutes

Its really easy to customize a package, or try it out in a temporary chroot



Community

The simple system means that users often build the tools they need on top of it, for example

- a search tool `kiss find` that pulls from multiple repositories online without having to add them locally

- packages for compiling and installing the linux kernel

- meta-package support for easier system integration



Expectations

As reported on repology, the main + community repository have a hair under 500 packages total.

Most packages use default configuration scripts, which means optional dependencies need to be installed before the package. In other words, you may have to reinstall packages to get all the functionality you want.

Like the distrowatch review mentioned, you will have to configure your own kernel which is intimidating.





Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.9.11

Rating: 10

Date: 2020-05-18

Votes: 3





The nice thing about the small size and and minimal lock ins KISS provides, it can be extended to a full blown DE or just as the necessary for a WM with processes you can count on two hands.

A brilliant vision formed into POSIX sh to make the OS development sandbox many of us want.





Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.9.11

Rating: 10

Date: 2020-04-29

Votes: 7





Easy to install by following the install guide. Helpful, nice and very active community!





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