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"that a simple system does not have to require endless setup and customization to be practical" and "alternative userland" don't go together since obviously any "alternative userland" is going to break lots of stuff and thus require extensive tweaking work.
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It was the AT&T vs BSD lawsuit, giving uncertainty to BSD's future, combined with the maturity of GNU userspace that gave Linux the opportunity to be relevant at all.
Nowadays it is the GNU religion.
Personally I couldn't care less of what shape of UNIX I get to use, though I do acknowledge that GNU religion is what allowed me not to spend endless nights at the university compute center fighting for a DG/UX or Solaris terminal, instead we could work on assignments from the comfort of our homes.
For everybody trying to figure out the point of Chimera Linux, it is Void Linux taken one step further. The founder used to be the maintainer of Void for PPC. That also explains the supported arch selection for Chimera. My take on Chimera is that it is what a FreeBSD user would want if they were going to use Linux. They share the same compiler and userland. The build system rings a lot of bells. At first, GNOME seems…
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Most Linux installs are going to be using Bionic libc, so still dubious to call glibc "standard". This is Linux. There is no standard. OpenWRT used uClibc until 2019.
GNU/Linux is the standard, as in most common. That's where it all started. Android is not used as a desktop or server OS.
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I'll add that most anti-GNU people I know in the BSD space and related projects are not at all against GNU politically speaking or it's ideals or the free software movement. We mostly think that a variety of terrible technical decisions have been made and allowed to metastisize over the years, and that they are largely unfixable so long as Linux remains an operating system devoted primarily to ease of use, popularity…
What are some good examples of where a BSD userland is much better than GNU userland? One thing that possibly comes to mind for me is macOS' launchd, which doesn't seem to give me the same headaches as systemd even though they're kind of the same thing (see also: windows services manager.) Another is/was clang/llvm vs. gcc, but gcc seems to have improved since clang originally came out. And clang is readily available…
XML definitions for service startup and inconsistent switches. Launchd is worse than systemd in those regards. I was quite happy to let go of my work iMac and do development on Linux.
So they're basically saying "our system will be better because more things will just work" but then they decided to use nonstandard libc and coreutils so actually getting existing Linux scripts and software to work in this distro will be harder .
Saying musl is non-standard is a serious allegation. Can you expand on that? In what way does it violate the standard?
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People that shit at GNU forget that without it, Linux would never ever taken off. It was the AT&T vs BSD lawsuit, giving uncertainty to BSD's future, combined with the maturity of GNU userspace that gave Linux the opportunity to be relevant at all. Nowadays it is the GNU religion. Personally I couldn't care less of what shape of UNIX I get to use, though I do acknowledge that GNU religion is what allowed me not to sp…
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People that shit at GNU forget that without it, Linux would never ever taken off. It was the AT&T vs BSD lawsuit, giving uncertainty to BSD's future, combined with the maturity of GNU userspace that gave Linux the opportunity to be relevant at all. Nowadays it is the GNU religion. Personally I couldn't care less of what shape of UNIX I get to use, though I do acknowledge that GNU religion is what allowed me not to sp…
Fundie Apología isn’t much better.
Welcome to what a world without GNU looks like.