Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> writes: > On 18 November 2012 07:00, Jens Staal <staal1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> lördagen den 17 november 2012 14.50.23 skrev Kurt H Maier: >>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:20:03PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >>> > sta.li >>> > ------ >>> > To me archlinux was a good distro until a couple of years ago. >>> > Nowadays it seems to be very en vogue and thus has degraded quite >>> > significantly in terms of simplicity. I'm not aware of any distro that >>> > would come close to the radical goals of stali, thus this is the real >>> > effort suckless.org must work on. I believe that the Android core as >>> > a base system is the best platform to base sta.li on. >>> >>> crux linux might have some useful approaches. I don't understand the >>> decision to use android crap like bionic when musl has come so far so >>> quickly. >> >> I agree with this. As an example distribution, Sabotage does things pretty >> well. One detail that I like a lot (but it sort of depends on your stance on >> symlinks) is the way applications usually are placed in it: > > I'm suggesting the Android core as this the environment I'm quite > familiar with. I'll investigate if linux+musl would be a better fit, > as I'm not totally tight to the Android core. But judging from the > fact that Android is already on >500 million devices I would say that > its core is quite well tested. And obviously it comes without the > systemd dependency.
Note that the workload of a Linux distribution running a Java VM is probably rather different from a power-user using the system natively. Especially, bionic only implements what Google needs (and *how*) and not a fully compatible POSIX API. Have a look at musl, its very sane, compact code and conformant. >> Each application gets its own directory under /opt and then installed files >> get symlinks in / (the file system hierarchy is stali-inspired with >> everything >> in root and usr just pointing back to root). > > I'll talk to Christian at the next Stammtisch to refresh my knowledge > about sabotage ;) There are probably more sabotage forks than users by now. :) I don't know which ones does the symlink-stuff, but I can also tell you about my ideas then. > Best regards, > Anselm cu, -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
