[ale] The future of the operating system

[leamhall at gmail.com (Leam Hall)]

On 12/20/18 6:33 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:00:58 -0500
> Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> In practice, absent systemd, I think a Linux based trimmed down
>> configuration could provide much of the same benefits as Open/NetBSD.
>> Maybe not to 100% but close. Something like "Linux From Scratch"
>> specifically configured for performant and secure networking.
> 
> Try Void Linux
> 
> https://voidlinux.org/
> 
> Download and install the core, and from there add one by one only what
> you need. No systemd. Uses runit to initialize the computer.
> 
> It's rolling release, but you don't get stuck in the update blind
> alleys frequent in Arch. Meanwhile, you get modern software.


Still playing with it some, my main learning right now is Perl for work. 
I need to figure out Void's dependency management; installing XFCE 
didn't require xdm, which didn't seem to require X.