= 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.

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.

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

=== The Manual

You are reading it now, and it is available from wherever place 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>>.

=== IRC

There is an IRC channel #liminix registered on the 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.  

=== Mailing lists

Three Liminix mailing lists are available: all are quite low volume.
To subscribe to any of these lists, send an email to
listname+subscribe@liminix.org. You can write anything you want in the
subject and message body: only the destination address is important.


* https://lists.liminix.org/announce/maillist.html[`announce@liminix.org`] for infrequent announcements from Liminix maintainers
* https://lists.liminix.org/devel/maillist.html[`devel@liminix.org`] for development-related discussion, patches, suggestions etc
* https://lists.liminix.org/users/maillist.html[`users@liminix.org`] for help requests and general discussion

The mailing lists are managed with Mlmmj and archived with MHonArc.

=== Standards of behaviour

Liminix is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

The Liminix <<_code_of_conduct>> applies to all Liminix spaces, including
the IRC channel, mailing lists, and any other forums, both online and
off. Anyone who violates the code of conduct may be sanctioned or
expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the project
leadership.