Show HN: Full graphical desktop running on a 128MB VPS Alpine+XRDP+WindowMaker (tierhive.com)
Built this as a guide for users of my hosting service. Everything here was run on a real instance. The Mesa/LLVM dependency is genuinely painful on a 1GB disk, and I couldn't find a way around it. WindowMaker won the window manager battle purely on dependency chain cleanliness; it pulls in no GTK, no Python, no audio stack. Happy to answer questions about any of the choices made. Screenshots at the end.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 16.3 ms ] thread(Tierhive is amazing btw, I have used it and I do quite like the idea of minimalism and you are well regarded within the lowendtalk when we talk about Minimalist vm's for example)
Although hackernews doesn't have a discussion, I am commenting as a form of appreciation method. It was a good surprise to reading the domain name of this post and your name on hackernews :-)
Also I do wonder what is the intersection of people who use both lowendtalk and hackernews.
I wonder that too. I have been a reader for YEARS, lost access to my old account, so I am cautious about posting content here, as I know new low-post accounts are often seen as spammy, which is fair enough.