On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Hannes Blut <cxb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22.09.16 at 03:42pm, stephen Turner wrote: >> >> I liked the old debian floppy net install, 75 mb base cli only image. >> apt get your way to happiness. It didn't fit with the suckless as they >> did a lot to their system but it wasn't ubuntu. These days you can't >> even install a Cli for less than 100+ mb. i really don't understand >> what they are feeding these programs. > > > The ubuntu netboot image has an initrd around 75mb... >
While that may be true my understanding is that its still very bloated and overrated and now they have systemd. I tried a bsd, and arch linux, both needed frequent file system repairs. Debian tends to be fairly stable but i haven't been happy with them in a while and can't quite put my finger on any particular reason. Ubuntu has worked in the past for a quick unix fix but not a system i would want to keep around for the long haul. At this point i am looking at sbase, ubase, sinit, linux kernel and a few other necessary oddities for a full command line like maybe libressl for https support. looking at some forums for the minimal xorg install with dwm maybe and giving st a shot for a term. what do you guys do for wget like functionality? opt for curl? I was a little surprised you didnt have a sget or the like.