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This brings back memories. I built LFS on a Pentium based machine a few times and it was quite fun. I took a similar approach to building a custom bare metal sy
by ngneer 2y ago
This brings back memories. I built LFS on a Pentium based machine a few times and it was quite fun. I took a similar approach to building a custom bare metal system for a client that needed extra security. I sometimes wish that there was a well maintained bare bones distribution inspired by the LFS philosophy, that might help with managing complexity on the cloud. Scanning the thread, NixOS came up. I used to love Slack, too. Any other recommendations? Something with minimal dependencies yet capable of being a LAMP-like server?
- throwaway2037 2y agoAlpine isn't good enough as a base system?
- _joel 2y agomuslc isn't as fast as glibc (last time I checked), but I guess it's fine if you're ok with that.
- greggyb 2y agoAlpine Linux is a very minimal base built around busybox and musl libc. Void is another minimalist distro offering a choice of glibc or musl, and using runit as an init. If you want more choices of init and a bleeding edge rolling release, Artix is a derivative of Arch with multiple init options in the core distribution. Arch and Gentoo are the classics of do-it-yourself minimalism.