On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every system administrator has a choice to make. Either he's going > with the "mainstream" sheep, and uses "mainstream" software, or he has > a constrained environment with specific needs. sigh... The world is really black and white, isn't it? Seriously, I do not like the dbus/udev/pulseaudio/CamelCaseWhateverKit fever thats going on in Linux userspace land. I don't like the GNU bloat. Alpine Linux gives you a base system where you have a completely udev/freedesktop free Linux system which is a perfect base for routers, servers, vpns, sip boxes etc. base system is less than 10MB excluding kernel and has a package manager that will make apt-get/yum/packman/ipkg look like a turtle. With a little extra effort we have managed to get an XFCE desktop system on top of that. You need udev if you cannot live without xorg inputdev hotplugging, udisks is needed for usb disks to show up in thunar. But still, the result is an refreshingly snappy desktop - without pulseaudio, systemd, GNU util-linux/coreutils/find/sed/grep/awk, etc. A desktop that uses resources effectively[1]. There are a few minor details/annoyances like umount not working 100%. All I ask for is ideas how to work those out. And believe me: I do *not* want bloat busybox. [1] http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/also-not-a-joke-xfce-on-39mb/ -- Natanael Copa _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
