Outer Point

Contents of cells are sorted from top to bottom as most to least humane.
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"Recommended" software is well designed for any purpose.
"Niche" software is designed for a specialized purpose.
"Interesting" software is designed with an alternative approach.
"Malware" is designed to work against its users.



Guix System
Chimera
Alpine
Hyperbola






Recommended
Niche
Interesting
Malware




Operating system


Hyperbola
OpenBSD
Alpine
Bedrock
T2 SDE
Gentoo
CRUX
Source Mage
Lunar

Plan 9 ad.
Genera
Guix System
NixOS

[Anything made by
Microsoft or Apple.]
Slackware
Slax
Debian ad.
openSUSE ad.
RHEL ad.
AOSP ad.




Character encoding standard
ASCII


Unicode



Software for UNIX-like operating systems.



File system
ext4
XFS
ZFS

exFAT
FAT
FUSE

HAMMER2




Interactive shell
mksh
oksh
ksh
ash
sh

rc
TCC
4DOS

scsh
Dynamic Lisp Listener

[Everything else]




Non-interactive shell
execline



User usurpation
su
really
doas



sudo
run0



C standard library


musl
OpenBSD libc
Newlib



glibc




Utility suite
sbase
s6-portable-utils
BusyBox

asmutils



GNU core utilities




Service management and
supervision system
Dinit

Finit
System V init

Shepherd

runit
OpenRC
systemd




Service management system
66-rc
s6-rc
sinit




Service supervision system
66
s6

daemontools




Package manager
XBPS
pacman

*BSD ports utilities
pkgutils + prt-get

Nix
Guix

everything else




Data filter and capture
gema

Miller
ruplacer
choose
cut



agrep
grep
mawk
gawk




Text editor
[Modeless]
Modeless vim
micro
ne
Tilde





[Modal]
Emacs ad.
vi ad.
Acme ad.
sam ad.
ed ad.




File manager
nnn
rover
mc
POSIX utilities




File compression and archival
gzip
tar
dar



Desktop search


fzf
fsearch







	Useful resources
sourceforge.net/directory/
eylenburg.github.io
wiki.installgentoo.com
wiki.archlinux.org
wiki.gentoo.org
acme.com/software/
suckless.org/rocks
skarnet.org
2f30.org
www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
dyne.org/software/
xiph.org
LFS book

	Recommended	Niche	Interesting	Malware
Operating system		Hyperbola OpenBSD Alpine Bedrock T2 SDE Gentoo CRUX Source Mage Lunar	Plan 9 ad. Genera Guix System NixOS	[Anything made by Microsoft or Apple.] Slackware Slax Debian ad. openSUSE ad. RHEL ad. AOSP ad.
Character encoding standard	ASCII			Unicode
Software for UNIX-like operating systems.
File system	ext4 XFS ZFS	exFAT FAT FUSE	HAMMER2
Interactive shell	mksh oksh ksh ash sh	rc TCC 4DOS	scsh Dynamic Lisp Listener	[Everything else]
Non-interactive shell	execline
User usurpation	su really doas			sudo run0
C standard library		musl OpenBSD libc Newlib		glibc
Utility suite	sbase s6-portable-utils BusyBox	asmutils		GNU core utilities
Service management and supervision system	Dinit	Finit System V init	Shepherd	runit OpenRC systemd
Service management system	66-rc s6-rc sinit
Service supervision system	66 s6	daemontools
Package manager	XBPS pacman	*BSD ports utilities pkgutils + prt-get	Nix Guix	everything else
Data filter and capture	gema	Miller ruplacer choose cut		agrep grep mawk gawk
Text editor	[Modeless] Modeless vim micro ne Tilde			[Modal] Emacs ad. vi ad. Acme ad. sam ad. ed ad.
File manager	nnn rover mc POSIX utilities
File compression and archival	gzip tar dar
Desktop search		fzf fsearch