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2 weeks ago, in the last post I said that I will start working on the wiki. Well... I technically didn't lie, I worked on the wiki, but not on the wiki pages, on the wiki itself :)

Anyway here all the updates:

Re-Re-write: mp-repo

Yes, I rewrote mp-repo, again. This is the last time I swear. I did so because I realized that mp-build, the tool for building packages, is completely useless. The package manager (mp) does not support standalone packages anyway, so we don't really a seperate tool to build packages, mp-repo may handle that as well. So that's what I did, I rewrote mp-repo, in bash, and added the functionality of building packages. As a result mp-build is now deprecated, source code for mp-build is now in a private repository.

Repos are now up!

base and desktop repos are now up at pkgs.matterlinux.xyz! So now it's possible to download packages without building them. The signatures are used for the repos belong to me (ngn) and its F9E70878C2FB389AEC2BA34CA3654DF5AD9F641D.

Now that MatterLinux have working repos, I will start working on a mirror tool, that people can use to setup mirrors easily. I want repos to be more accessible, the MatterLinux server is located in Turkey, so it does not have the greatest accessibility for the most part of the world.

The new wiki

After writing 2 pages using the MediaWiki, I got really annoyed by the its syntax. Like FFS just use markdown or something! Anyway, I also didn't like the look of the themes, so after few minutes of scrolling in the awesome-selfhosted list, I picked wikmd, and after installing it with docker, I realized that it's running in development mode, I couldn't find anyway to change that and I didn't want to build the docker image myself.

So I decided to pick another one, WikiJS, which turned out to be pretty bloat.

After checking out few more of the wiki software on the list, I found out that they are all bad- I mean, they are not bad but they were just not what I was looking for. So I decided to expand the MatterLinux's website so I can use it as a wiki. And that's what I did, I moved around a lot of the server code, and added a new /wiki route, which just simply acts like the /news route.

Go ahead and check it out!

What's next?

I will finish writing all the important pages, currently the most important page is the installation page, when its done, well, I will publish the first release archive and it will be possible to install MatterLinux!

After that I will start expanding the desktop repo and I will also work on the mirror tool that I mentioned.

I think that's all for now, see you in the next post.