Hello Joel,

I like using all sorts of CLI programs on my GNU/Linux machines. How far away are we from being able to run simple programs like Mutt and Newsboat within a noux instance?

Actually, we already have been at this point for few years now but for better or worse we did not make it much of a priority to work out all the remaining kinks. FWIW, there is my [1] branch which contains mutt but lies dormant for a while now - if you would like to resume the porting or rather integration effort please get in touch with me, I'm happy to help.

[1] https://github.com/cnuke/genode/commits/noux_email

Most of the time CLI tools just-work™ but sooner or later one stumples upon short-comings of our libc or terminal backend implementation.

That being said, since there is increasing demand for using known CLI tools on Genode, we plan to spend more time on making it easier to port/build the programs by using the SDK. (On this note, we also plan to consolidate the libc and Noux as the only reason this somewhat artificial split still exists is because it provides simpler means to implement 'fork()'.)

Regards Josef