On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:41:24 +0100 Sir Cyrus <sircy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's the most suckless Linux distribution? > What about Alpine Linux[1]? As said before GNU parts sucks so much, that even Linux kernel looks good. Alpine Linux uses Busybox and uclibc by default. No GNU coreutils and no glibc in base system is a good start. Alpine Linux setup is very small - only about dozen packages in bare system. At first I found weird that even man pages are missing after default installation. Although this means that groff is missing too and can be replaced by mdocml or even by plan9 troff, depending on user's choice. One thing that isn't to my taste is OpenRC init system. I can swallow this, compared to other distros bottlenecks. Using plan9 software by default shouldn't be much problem either. Just uncomment some options in Busybox build config for package[2] and port 9base/plan9port (I didn't have time to resolve problem with building 9base against uclibc). [1] http://alpinelinux.org/ [2] http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package -- Paul Onyschuk <bl...@bojary.koba.pl>
