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= Introduction
== What is Liminix?
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.
== Where to find out more
=== The Manual
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 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 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.
=== 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.