Alpine 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 a

Alpine 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.