https://github.com/itis-enrico-fermi/fermios-lw
A Linux flavour for desktops, servers and low power devices.
https://github.com/itis-enrico-fermi/fermios-lw
desktop-environment distro distrowatch dmenu fermi foss herbe i3 i3-gaps ict-students lightdm lightdm-greeter linux linux-distro open-source operating-system os void-linux window-manager zsh
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A Linux flavour for desktops, servers and low power devices.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/itis-enrico-fermi/fermios-lw
- Owner: ITIS-Enrico-Fermi
- Created: 2021-01-21T17:03:34.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-02-13T21:33:11.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-30T17:39:23.112Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: desktop-environment, distro, distrowatch, dmenu, fermi, foss, herbe, i3, i3-gaps, ict-students, lightdm, lightdm-greeter, linux, linux-distro, open-source, operating-system, os, void-linux, window-manager, zsh
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- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# FermiOS Lightweight
The main purpose of this project is to bring back to life PCs made up of old pieces of hardware and turn them into the Swiss-Army knife of ICT students.
We are also concerned about the environmental issues that our world is facing in the last few years, for that reason we made lowering computers' carbon footprint our secondary mission.
By building a lightweight Linux distribution, perfectly suitable to the needs of the average sysadmin, we hope to spread the pleasure of minimal operating systems and sustainable computing.
## Specifications
### Notifications manager
[Herbe](https://github.com/dudik/herbe)
### Terminal emulator
[urxvt](https://linux.die.net/man/1/urxvt)
Shortcuts:
- Alt+c --> copy text
- Alt+p --> paste text
- Alt-s --> search inside the terminal. Hit _n_ to go ahead
### Shell
[zsh](https://www.zsh.org/)
### Text editor
[vim](https://www.vim.org/)
### File manager
[lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf)
### Launcher
[dmenu](https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/)
### File transfer
[qrpc](https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qrcp)
### Widget toolkit
[gtk](https://www.gtk.org/)
Theme: [akwa-dark](https://github.com/berkiyo/akwa)
Icons: [adwaita](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/tree/master/gtk/theme/Adwaita)
Fonts:
- [Roboto Condensed](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Condensed) for GUI's text
- [Tamsyn](http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/) for terminal
### Tiling window manager
[i3-gaps](https://github.com/Airblader/i3)
[picom](https://github.com/yshui/picom/tree/master)
### Power management
[powertop](https://01.org/powertop/)
[tlp](https://github.com/linrunner/TLP)
[cpufreq](https://github.com/konkor/cpufreq)
### Bootloader
[grub](https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/)
### Display manger
[lightdm](https://github.com/canonical/lightdm)
Default user: _fermios-user_
Password: _fermi_
Root user: _root_
Password: _fermi_
### Keymap
`setxkbmap it`
### Color palette
[Nord](https://www.nordtheme.com/)
## Drivers
### Broadcom WiFi BCM43xx
Drivers installed using official [Void guide](https://wiki.voidlinux.org/Macbook).
In order to connect to WiFi you may want to use [Connman](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ConnMan#Wi-Fi)
Automated configuration using scripts will be soon provided.
## Toolset
FermiOS is shipped with a pre-installed set of tools extremely useful for ICT students, along with 3 VMs (KVM virtualization).
These VMs are carefully configured so that they take up a minimal amount of memory and other resources.
- Nmap
- sshd
- pio-cli
- miniterm
## References
- https://docs.voidlinux.org/
- https://wiki.voidlinux.org/Post_Installation
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/rxvt-unicode