I think they should just say "An easy way to get Linux without systemd" and they would drive a lot of adoption. :-)
What are the top 3 alternative ways to do GNU/Linux without systemd?
Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
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Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I have never used bedrock linux in anger, But you have used it in joy? Or what does this mean? And as for rollback capabilities, wouldn't snapshots just work far easier than any of your other ideas? Not only can you easily rollback, everything about the failure is still accessible.
It comes from the expression "fired in anger," which meant using a weapon in the heat of battle, i.e., that the weapon was battle tested.
I’ve seen people (entirely in computing contexts) say “used in anger” but never knew the derivation.
Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#23Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#24I think they should just say "An easy way to get Linux without systemd" and they would drive a lot of adoption. :-)
What are the top 3 alternative ways to do GNU/Linux without systemd?
Void Linux uses its own init system and it's pretty nice and familiar. The distribution has gotten a lot better over the years.
Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#25I think they should just say "An easy way to get Linux without systemd" and they would drive a lot of adoption. :-)
What are the top 3 alternative ways to do GNU/Linux without systemd?
I was going to mention the debian distro. I've got a 'cleanse' script that has grown over time for Ubuntu installs that I first install stock Ubuntu, then cleanse it of snap, systemd, modem-manager, and a couple of other things. And then add the packages that I like. But every release it gets more onerous to do this.
Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
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#27How can this possibly work with incompatable libraries? It says that Bedrock provides the glue to make it work, but it does not come with specifics on how it has solved what seems to be a rather hard problem to solve.
It is like overlay of many chroots / containers with some logic to preset unified view of all installed apps and to transparently switch between them.
So for example typing “mplayer” runs it in Ubuntu container, and typing “vlc” runs it in Arch container. And each container has is own libraries.
Pretty cool, but requires many rules about shared / unshared dirs. Like, home is shared but fontcache isn’t... Their release page has a long list of compatible subsystems.
Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#28I think they should just say "An easy way to get Linux without systemd" and they would drive a lot of adoption. :-)
What are the top 3 alternative ways to do GNU/Linux without systemd?
Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#29I think they should just say "An easy way to get Linux without systemd" and they would drive a lot of adoption. :-)
What are the top 3 alternative ways to do GNU/Linux without systemd?
The most common for me are Void, Alpine, and Artix.
For most people you could probably sub Devuan for Artix though.
Re: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
#30I think they should just say "An easy way to get Linux without systemd" and they would drive a lot of adoption. :-)
What are the top 3 alternative ways to do GNU/Linux without systemd?
Genuinely curious, for both casual and advanced users, what *major* reasons are there for not using systemd?
I've used systemd for years bug-free