From a720f8f1146565f12f2a34c9c4442afdc7794eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Barlow Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 23:57:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] intro: subtitles, add irc links --- doc/intro.adoc | 27 ++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/intro.adoc b/doc/intro.adoc index a0e2177..4b5e84f 100644 --- a/doc/intro.adoc +++ b/doc/intro.adoc @@ -1,39 +1,40 @@ = Introduction -Liminix is a Nix-based collection of software tailored for domestic wifi -router or IoT device devices, of the kind that OpenWrt or DD-WRT or -Gargoyle or Tomato run on. +== What is Liminix? -This is not NixOS-on-your-router: it's aimed at devices that are -underpowered for the full NixOS experience. It uses busybox tools, musl -instead of GNU libc, and s6-rc instead of systemd. +Liminix is a Nix-based collection of software tailored for domestic +wifi router or IoT devices, of the kind that OpenWrt or DD-WRT +or Gargoyle or Tomato run on. It's not NixOS on your router: we target +devices that are underpowered for the full NixOS experience. It uses +busybox tools, musl instead of GNU libc, and s6-rc instead of systemd. The Liminix name comes from Liminis, in Latin the genitive declension of "limen", or "of the threshold". Your router stands at the threshold of your (online) home and everything you send to/receive from the outside word goes across it. -== Find out more +== Where to find out more === The Manual -You are reading it now, and it is available from wherever place you +You are reading it now, and it is available from wherever you are reading it :-) but its canonical location is https://www.liminix.org/doc/ === Source code -Liminix source code is hosted at https://gti.telent.net/dan/liminix, -with a mirror at https://github.com/telent/liminix. You can clone from -either of those repos. For more on this, see <<_contributing>>. +Liminix source code is held in git, and hosted at +https://gti.telent.net/dan/liminix, with a mirror at +https://github.com/telent/liminix. You can clone from either of those +repos. For more on this, see <<_contributing>>. === IRC -There is an IRC channel #liminix registered on the OFTC network, which +There is an IRC channel https://webchat.oftc.net/?nick=&channels=#liminix[#liminix] registered on the https://www.oftc.net/[OFTC] network, which is a good place to ask if you want a quick answer about how to use Liminix or are looking at a new port. Be mindful that other participants may be in different timezones than your own, so do not -expect an immediate answer. +expect an immediate answer. === Mailing lists