suckless.org

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suckless
FounderAnselm R. Garbe[1]
TypeCommunity
FocusFree software, Software minimalism
Productsdwm, st, surf, and other tools
Websitesuckless.org

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suckless.org is a free software community of programmers working on projects with a focus on minimalism, simplicity, clarity, and frugality.[2][3] The group developed the dwm and wmii window managers, surf, tabbed, and other programs that are said to adhere strictly to the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well".[1] The development team follows the "Worse is better" principle and adheres to the KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid").[4][5]

History

The suckless community was founded by Anselm R. Garbe in 2006.[1] He became a vocal proponent of the suckless philosophy, saying that "a lot [of what] went wrong in the IT industry recently [...] be recognized in order to rethink the common practice, and perhaps to think about the time when Moore's law stops being a valid assumption." The suckless manifesto deplores the common tendency for "complex, error-prone and slow software [that] seems to be prevalent in the present-day software industry",[6] and argues that a programmer's performance should not be measured by the number of lines of code they write.[7]

In October 2006, Garbe registered the domain suckless.org to replace 10kloc.org and wmii.de.[8]

In 2007, Garbe called for the need for a "Plan 9 lover's and C hacker Ubuntu" which comes packed with dwm/wmii and all necessary tools for developing C code and suggested calling it 9ubuntu.[9] Suckless later developed stali (static Linux), an operating system with statically linked executables that adheres to the suckless principles.[10]

Projects

Conferences

Starting in 2013 the suckless.org community organizes annual conferences[15] and hackathon gatherings focusing on technical topics and socializing with community members, commonly referred to as "SLCon" (short for "SuckLess Conference").

suckless.org e.V.

In 2015 the legal entity suckless.org e.V. was founded during the suckless conference.[16] Its aim and main purpose is supporting the projects of suckless.org and open source in general.

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schwartz, Randal; Amaral, Guillermo; Garbe, Anselm R; Hendry, Kai (23 September 2015). "Episode 355: Suckless". FLOSS Weekly (Podcast). This Week in Tech. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kopta, Martin (2 December 2013). "Suckless: méně smradlavý software" [Suckless: less smelly software]. Root.cz (in čeština). Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Приложения от сообщества suckless.org" [Applications from the suckless.org community]. mykomp2.ru (in русский). 3 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schnalke, Markus (14 August 2008). "marmaro.de" (PDF). suckless.org – software that sucks less. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wolbe, Miles (1 July 2011). "suckless.org - tiny unix apps". tinyapps.org (Blog). Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Woehr, Jack (6 August 2009). "Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Philosophy". suckless.org. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Garbe, Anselm R. (9 October 2006). "suckless.org – new primary domain, wmii.de, wmii.net, shortest.de and 10kloc.org going to be dropped". wmii (Mailing list).
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Garbe, Anselm R. (14 March 2007). "[dwm] 9ubuntu?". lists.suckless.org (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Garbe, Anselm R. "stali – static linux" (PDF). LinuxTag. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Patil, Aditya (19 January 2024). "Suckless Utilities for Arch Linux — The Most Minimal Way Run a Computer". Medium. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Late Night Coding (24 July 2025). "Why dwm is Better Than Your Window Manager". HackerNoon. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beaupré, Antoine (15 April 2018). "A look at terminal emulators, part 2". LWN.net. Eklektix, Inc. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Luu, Dan (15 July 2017). "Terminal latency". danluu.com. Archived from the original on 25 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."suckless conference 2013, Munich". suckless.org. 22 June 2013. Archived from the original on 28 November 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."suckless.org e.V." suckless.org. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

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