Re: [dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-12 Thread Sagar Acharya
> I don’t think it makes sense for the suckless guys to try trimming down that > bloated mess (Linux kernel). > > To be honest I’m wondering if the love they give OpenBSD, as a desktop OS, is > misplaced. OpenBSD is 22M lines if you include the entirety of the files, and > 16M counting just

Re: [dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-12 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
pon., 12 kwi 2021 o 20:36 Sagar Acharya napisał(a): > > > > > I don’t think it makes sense for the suckless guys to try trimming down > > that bloated mess (Linux kernel). > > > > To be honest I’m wondering if the love they give OpenBSD, as a desktop OS, > > is misplaced. OpenBSD is 22M lines

Re: [dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-12 Thread Sagar Acharya
I too agree with Hiltjo. I don't think suckless is Linux oriented. At the time of writing that article, I thought Linux and BSD are the only 2 usable kernels. Practically it seems so, but recently I saw microkernel vs monolithic kernel debate and got interested in seL4. I'm not sure whether

Re: [dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-12 Thread Edward Willis
> On Apr 11, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Daniel Cegiełka > wrote: > >> Choose an OS which has a small kernel and other minimal software >> that you need. (OpenBSD is the only one I can see here today) > > suckless is strongly Linux-oriented - musl, ubase, smdev, nldev, nlmon > > I wonder if it would

Re: [dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-12 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 08:22:18AM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > > Choose an OS which has a small kernel and other minimal software > > that you need. (OpenBSD is the only one I can see here today) > > suckless is strongly Linux-oriented - musl, ubase, smdev, nldev, nlmon > No, there are also

[dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-12 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
> Choose an OS which has a small kernel and other minimal software > that you need. (OpenBSD is the only one I can see here today) suckless is strongly Linux-oriented - musl, ubase, smdev, nldev, nlmon I wonder if it would make sense to make a little Linux kernel. Everything that is unnecessary