On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:07:42PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:06:45 +0200 > pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > Any reason why you need a non-gnu distro? I don't see how that would > make things suckless. I would wish for a perl-free world, but it would > probably not happen any time soon.
Building a recent Linux kernel actually requires perl and at some point they even considered rewriting the whole or at least a large part of the build system in perl. Don't know what they decided in the end. Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0
