On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, staticsafe <m...@staticsafe.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26:34PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder <andreas_e...@gmx.net> wrote: >> > On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: >> > >> >> > But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system >> >> > that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even >> >> > have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many >> >> > different system configurations out there and Gentoo is famous >> >> > for supporting a wide variety. That variety is stomped on if >> >> > something like a /usr merge is forced. It also makes building >> >> > your default environment more complicated due to generating an >> >> > initramfs. >> >> >> >> Absolutely agreed. >> > >> > Might be a good time to switch to freebsd :-( >> >> I agree. This is the only escape plan against the new wind of >> dictation into monolithic approach that comes from systemd sponsors >> direction. >> >> Let's see how it turns out... if Linux userspace will become like the >> Windows user space, then freebsd suddenly looks very promising >> alternative. >> >> Regards, >> Alon >> > > Y'all are welcome to switch to Slackware. :)
At 2000-2006 this what I actually used. it was the most configurable distribution, then switched to Gentoo because it was mature and even more customizable, easier to extend, while Slackware was on halt for years.