On 19/04/2015 16:03, John Regan wrote:
It's not quite the same, but I think Alpine linux is pretty close to what you're looking for. They'd probably love to get more people involved, writing documentation, making packages, etc. It doesn't use s6, but I've submitted the s6 packages to the project. Maybe you could work on adding s6 init scripts to packages?
Yes, I didn't mention Alpine because people who love Arch Linux are often reluctant to try out distributions that don't do things the same way as Arch - and some stuck to Arch after the change to systemd, even though they themselves loathe systemd, because it's Arch. :) But I agree that Alpine Linux is close: they use musl, and AFAIK they use runit as their init system. Which is good per se, and which would probably make an s6 alternative rather painless. If I ever have to install a distribution again, I'll probably go with Alpine, unless something even better comes along. -- Laurent
