commit a720f8f1146565f12f2a34c9c4442afdc7794eef
parent f9f55ee6bc48797cff6eb21836360c6b2f77399d
Author: Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 23:57:20 +0100
intro: subtitles, add irc links
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git 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
