On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 23:22 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 9/17/25 12:08, zyxhere💠wrote: > > Hi Rob what distro do you use, your youtube videos seem to suggest a > > glibc one tho you look more like an alpine guy. > > On my laptop? > > $ cat /etc/os-release > PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)" > NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
https://beta.devuan.org/os/init-freedom suggests that it still defaults to sysvinit only?! I thought it would OpenRC as its the more popular one and is actually a service manager too. Or maybe you switch out it with OpenRC? Actually looking at alpine they still use busybox as init but OpenRC on top as a service manager, Gentoo also still defaults to sysvinit with OpenRC on top of it. But I have heard rumors OpenRC will be removing the abiity to do so because it apparently causes issues for the new features they want to implement. > VERSION_ID="5" > VERSION="5 (daedalus)" > VERSION_CODENAME="daedalus" > ID=devuan > ID_LIKE=debian > HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"; > SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"; > BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"; > > It's basically "debian without systemd". I mention it a lot in my blog, > especially last year (https://landley.net/notes-2024.html) when I > upgraded from B to D. (Which in Debian terms was reinstalling from > Buster to Bookworm.) > > I've got various other distros in VMs I run under kvm: currently > Freebsd-14.2, alpine 3.19.1, archlinux-2021, linuxmint-21.2-xfce, fedora > 36, and xubuntu 22.04. Plus redhat 9 and redhat 6 from the dawn of time > (and knoppix 3.6 and 6.7) in case I want to ask historical questions, > and some non-x86 debian and buildroot images to run under qemu in case I > want to see how other systems handle something on an architecture (but > that's WAY slower than kvm). With the qemu-user chroot thing or qemu-system-* still? I did the mistake of compiling gcc in an arm64 qemu chroot once instead of using a cross-compiler (took two days on my laptop) > > Plus I ssh to various other systems. (This laptop is slow and ancient, > sometimes I borrow a newer 32-way SMP machine to rebuild all the > toolchains and mkroot targets WITHOUT leaving it all running overnight...) > > Rob I forgot to ask the most important question! What desktop environment!! _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
