2009/5/15 pancake <panc...@youterm.com>: > A friend of me is writing a pkgsystem that builds everything inside a chroot > and allows to create a full usable distribution, the pkgsystem itself is not > yet finished, but is pretty fast , written in C and shellscript and I really > think it is a good project. But actually it is a single-man project. We can > use this project as a tool to build the base system. > > http://repo.or.cz/w/xbps.git/ > > Actually i'm happy with arch linux, but, i really miss a non-gnu linux and > minimalistic distribution. We should get a look on alternatives for glibc > (google one? uclibc? ..) but maybe the biggest rock we will face it will be > the X server...this is probably one of the interesting projects to work on, > but without keeping the X compatibility. (just as an emulation layer) X11 is > bloat. (as we have already discussed, we can reuse the drivers of xorg) but > designing a better and simpler API. But this is probably a long topic to > talk about, and we're of course not the first ones to claim for an X11 > replacement. > > --pancake >
I'd like to agree with you, and I would be glad to help in such an effort, but it would not give me any real benefit. There is a suckless alternative to GNU: Plan9. If I still run (arch)linux is because I often need things like a full featured web browser, pdflatex, the gimp, or ardour, for example, so I will need all the gnu-x-crap anyway. The same thing happens with that pkgsystem: it looks good, but what I really need from a pkgsystem is pre-packaged software, IMO compatibility with pacman (or any other widely used pm) would be better. But if you - or anybody else - go for it, every iniciative to remove GNU from the world has my vote. I have also listened good things about http://www.tinycorelinux.com, but have not tried the real thing myself. -- - yiyus || JGL .
