BerryCore

What is BerryCore?

You may grab BerryCore from here and follow the installation. It’s well documented, and sw7ft is just a great guy. I truly believe his contribution is not recognized enough.

The Vision

If you do not know him, let me explain his work. He sits there for hours, trying to provide the most diverse utilities from core POSIX-compliant CLI and TUI tools, packaging until he reached a point where he could run a Linux VM inside these more than 10-year-obsolete devices, getting X11 and even GCC 9 to run.

Community Contributions

Now, if you also contributed in any way to BerryCore and I did not realize it, please let me know! I would love to mention your work too, because the possibilities really got to a point where even I got interested in the project again.

The Documentation Problem

Sadly, besides the installation, the documentation of the whole project is a lot of AI slop; many packages are not documented, while there are some real gold gems buried inside this project.

I will demonstrate one, which I did just for fun, while being sure it would never work. That’s the great thing about free and open-source software. We may fork the whole project if things do not go as we like, but we can also contribute to the project so we as a community as a whole can benefit and grow.

Why Documentation Matters

Contributing to documentation for a project in such a state is really essential. Even I, who literally spends his whole time in this area, had to wrap my head many times to find the right information.

Another important point to mention is that you don’t need to be tech-savvy at all to contribute to docs.