EDEN Workstation System

EDEN Workstation System (EWS) is the software infrastructure for EDEN Workstation computers and its user.

It is built on top of [Xfce] and [Wine] on [Debian], and provides lesser services to Android and Windows.

Setting EWS apart from the contemporary are its meticulous [customizations], supplemented by our utility [scripts] and [desktop theming suite], backed by a comprehensive [filesystem hierarchy].

Much of the EWS are customized by hand, and can be conveniently-preconfigured before use. Premade configuration files in the cfg repository can be imported to their working locations. There are helper scripts that automate the building and cleaning of said locations if some sanitization is desired. This also streamlines new installations of a compatible system.

Pronounced by its letters, cfg is purely a label that otherwise stands for nothing, not even the word configuration. It was initialized in 2017 for manual labor.

Our scripts perform specialized automations, provide user utilities, assist in running executables, and even supply functions to other scripts. The last of which makes up EDEN Workstation Scripting Environment (EWSE). Some--like [Pnic]--are their own projects. Finally, they integrate with the graphical environment via global keyboard shortcuts and [Thunar custom actions].

Collectively, they are successors to [EDENsh/dos].

We designed our own filesystem hierarchy to tighten our knowledge of each and every file including directories and links. We only clutter our desktop during work and only if necessary, and flush our downloads regularly by moving them to their appropriate place. We use a RAM disk as a semi-volatile workspace to reduce disk wear, for archive extractions, small downloads, and other intermediate storage needs. Occassionally, we do a monthly backup of our primary storage.

EDEN Workstation Folder Hierarchy (EWFH) started in 2011 with the intended use of Windows Vista's user shell folders. Today, it spans multiple disks and partitions, flagged with either file categories or archive levels.

Aside from components spun off into public projects, we have no plans to release its source as it is specialized for our uses and is thus not fit for the general public. If you are still interested in this project, [let us know] and we will also be glad to publicize its source. Rest assured that it is high quality.

1. Modified from a picture of a remote controller's infrared emitter blasting straight to the camera.