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Have you looked at BSDs?

• edgyquant 7y ago
  I wouldn't call any BSD simple. They have less kernel code than Linux, sure, but they are huge beats in of themselves.
  • jonhohle 7y ago
    In my experience as an end user, they are decidedly simpler, have much better documentation, and changes are broadcast through standardized release processes. I spend a lot less time “admin-ing” my FreeBSD servers than I did when they were Linux.
  • zelly 7y ago
    FreeBSD you mean. OpenBSD and NetBSD are still simple. You can realistically read the entire source code of OpenBSD, compile it, and know exactly what's on your computer front to back. To do the same with Linux is a research project.
    • skissane 7y ago
      > You can realistically read the entire source code of OpenBSD, compile it, and know exactly what's on your computer front to back. To do the same with Linux is a research project. openbsd/src is over 17,000 *.c files with over 3 million lines of code
      • nineteen999 7y ago
        That's just a light weekends reading for your average testicle in an eggcup.
    • majewsky 7y ago
      > and know exactly what's on your computer front to back That's assuming you read all that firmware code already...
    • edgyquant 7y ago
      I don't mean just FreeBSD, being quite a bit smaller than Linux is still a gigantic, 30 year old, codebase. You can not realistically read through the entire openbsd codebase unless you spend a decade at it
• eggy 7y ago
  Or Minix.