About
A love of simple things, applied to the whole computer.
Who. Kūhaku is the vision of Rudolf Krcmar. He loves simple things: a clean page, a single line, a tool that does one job well and then gets out of the way.
Why. He wanted a computer that waits quietly until he asks, does the work, and leaves the screen empty again. Not a faster desk, but no desk at all.
How. Rudolf decides what Kūhaku is, how it looks and, above all, what it leaves out. Every line, colour and word passes that test. Claude is his collaborator: in conversation with him it writes the code, runs it on the machine and fixes what breaks.
What it is. A working proposal that is used every day: its own system, based on Debian, free and open source under the MIT license. Download it.
Inspiration.
- 空白 (kūhaku) and 余白 (yohaku)
- Blank space, and the unpainted part of an ink painting: the empty part is part of the work, not what is left over.
- The Bauhaus
- Form follows function. Nothing is there for decoration.
- The command line
- You say what you want in words.
Try it
Make your computer Kūhaku.
Free and open source. A USB stick and about ten minutes, or one line on Debian and Linux Mint.