Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#2michaelforney was also who did the wayland port of st: https://github.com/michaelforney/st
oasis's predecessor would be https://dl.suckless.org/htmlout/sta.li
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#3This is very very cool. I love the bloat free nature of the thing, especially velox (the WM). Samurai (build system) also looks pretty interesting. I've not managed to work out quite how samurai works, or truthfully, why it differs from ninja, but this project is exactly the kind of brain food I intend on learning a lot from.
Many, many props to Michael Forney.
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#4I cant speak much about the system, it just works, but the community was really nice when I interacted with them over IRC
I had the plan to build oasis with bazel for some immutable OS images that could run as kubernetes nodes. I succeeded with a little pointing.
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#5Interesting choices, finally something that isn't just another Linux distribution.
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#6michaelforney was also who did the wayland port of st: https://github.com/michaelforney/st oasis's predecessor would be https://dl.suckless.org/htmlout/sta.li
Michaelforney has also built croc [1], a qbe based C compiler. Really impressive!
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#7I cant speak much about the system, it just works, but the community was really nice when I interacted with them over IRC I had the plan to build oasis with bazel for some immutable OS images that could run as kubernetes nodes. I succeeded with a little pointing.
Have you shared your BUILD files upstream?
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#8Can someone explain a couple use cases for something like this?
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#9What is the comparison between using musl and traditional glibc?
Is there performance differences between the two?
I have been seeing musl used more and more in both Rust and Zig ecosystems lately.
Re: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
#10There’s also the “suckless” sta.li