fases - Ferass' Base System

Simple coreutils for a fully functionnal UNIX-like system

Project Documentation

(!) Please note that documentation is incomplete and can be very outdated (!)

• Compile fases

• Mirrors

• Status

• Coding Style

• Incomplete TODO list

• FAQ

Goal

The fases project tries to provide friendly, functionnal and simple core utilities for a fully functionnal UNIX-like Operating System. It tries to be entirely portable and working on any UNIX-like Operating System and kernel such as OpenBSD and Linux. It also tries to be completly modular and as such one utility should not depend on another in order to work. The coreutils are still a work-in-progress. The fases utilities are currently tested on Artix, Alpine, OpenBSD, OS X and FreeBSD. We expect all utilities to work on all systems implementing POSIX due to us using only POSIX-compliant functions.

Directory structure

fases.git
  ├── box.c
  ├── box-templates
  │   ├── box_1-23.c
  │   ├── box_45-49.c
  │   ├── box_70-73.c
  │   └── box_94-96.c
  ├── config.mk
  ├── COPYING.3BSD
  ├── COPYING.FBDL
  ├── COPYING.GPLv3
  ├── core
  │   └── <core utilities>
  ├── docs
  │   └── <documentation>
  ├── extras
  │   └── <extra utilities>
  ├── Makefile
  ├── man
  │   └── <manpages>
  └── README.md

Licensing

The fases project is licensed under 3 separate licenses:

• POSIX core utilities are licensed under the permissive 3-clause BSD license ;

• The documentation, including manpages, are licensed under the FreeBSD documentation license ;

• Non-POSIX utilities such as box and extras are licensed under the copyleft GPLv3 license. The fases box binary is also licensed under the GPLv3.

Chat

The fases project has 2 IRC channels hosted on 2 IRC Networks:

• #fases on LibreIRC (webchat):

server: irc.andrewyu.org ;

ssl: 6697 (recommended) ;

plain: 6667.

• #fases on Libera.Chat (webchat):

server: irc.libera.chat ;

ssl: 6697 (recommended) ;

plain: 6667.

Both of these channels are linked so all messages sent in one of them is sent on the other Network.

Mailing Lists

(!) The fases -at- andrewyu -dot- org mailing list is going to be deprecated soon in favor of the new fases-general -at- andrewyu -dot- org which includes a new UI and a mail archive that isn't provided by a third-party. Please use that mailing list instead. (!)

The fases project also has a mailing list ran by Andrew Yu (thanks!).

The mailing list's address is: fases-general -at- andrewyu -dot- org ( subscribe).

To send patches, please use git-send-email. A tutorial on how to use it can be found here.

Donations

Donations really help this project, no matter how small. People that work on this project are unpaid volunteers that do it on their freetime. We currently only accept XMR/Monero. You can use these addresses for donating.

Project Donations: 83bXvP25H5SX3kfTXMcjdm816KFUapPdN2eUV1gAF3JTNcoqNtG5ZxvfRUF81bZMMWXcX5kES1h1jCJCNyYZmrHGVeQBGNK

The server hosting the project also costs money. To keep the server up and running, you can donate to this address:

Server Donations: 85q7XiHDpjYVq3cQ3uBSMN9JchP4mgpBGRc6SY9G6vyjF22QAugJxYAabLt9bQDvj3DcqkDjQKmduCNPVbzq7xVdTLmu2LF

You can also donate to other contributors separately. Thanks!

Thank you!

I would like to thank a few people there, mainly:

• Andrew Yu, for making a mirror on their git server at git.andrewyu.org, and linking the ##fases libera.chat channel to LibreIRC, for testing fases on OpenBSD and for hosting the mailing list.

• Leah Rowe, for adding lots of improvements on her git repo and for testing fases on OpenBSD. Donate.

• Ron Nazarov, for fixing a weird bug in yes and adding useful features in it.

• Other people I forgot to add there. If I forgot to add you there, do send a patch or just tell me :D.

Contributions are very welcome, even if you're not a programmer. You can help this project by:

• Testing utilities and reporting bugs ;

• Talking about fases ;

• Donating XMR/Monero ;

• Giving me recommendations.

Help is greatly appreciated, thanks!