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Debian, Fedora and Slackware are pretty cool, reliable and they can be used for business and home personal use.
Security with update is also very fine.
More and more, I use syslinux (or extlinux) with efi, and run the kernel using init=/init for more fun. I like to install from scratch since it give a very light distro. LFS is cool and more fun.
What about making a new Suckless Distro? How big would be your dreamt lightweight Linux distro?
I wish you a great day!
Pat
Given that my smallest drive is a 16 GB emmc, and that I can (and currently have) a full KDE installation on that, with a 4 GB swap, and still have 5 GB+ free space, I'd say that means my dream distro would be ~7 GB, give or take due to formatting.
wow, downloaded in a few seconds, boooted into a vm in another few seconds. quick fun.
now how to get an Xsession running.
It is easy to boot, it is light, less than 15-20mb.
Boot in Syslinux (or grub) with:
Code:
label SUCKLESSLINUX
MENU SUCKLESSLINUX
MENU LABEL SUCKLESS LINUX (default)
kernel /stali/vmlinuz
append initrd=/stali/initrd.img
TEXT HELP
* Boot menu
* http://www.sta.li
* LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM
* YOUR SUCKLESS.ORG OFFERS HIGH RELIABILITY SOFTWARES FOR COMPUTER.
ENDTEXT
If you compare the lightest Debian Linux you can get is about 100mb.
First time I've heard about Suckless. It raises a lot of questions for me. Their website seems almost a joke, and updating the whole system via Git seems ridiculous. Is there any other place one could find info about sta.li and suckless?
First time I've heard about Suckless. It raises a lot of questions for me. Their website seems almost a joke, and updating the whole system via Git seems ridiculous. Is there any other place one could find info about sta.li and suckless?
some very fine applications run under the "brand" suckless.
and because they suck less, it is possible to use them in any environment, in any combination with other apps.
i guess most have at least heard of, and many are satisfied users of dmenu.
dwm is a valued window manager.
some other tools like slock, st, tabbed...
they all stem from the same philosophy. however, i don't see a whole, working operating system emerging from that, or at least not in a practical way.
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