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Author: William (wrpr.us) <x@linear.codes>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:45:32 -0400
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+2024‐03‐07
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+The ever present distro temptations
+
+Hop Hop Hop... I've had multiple temptations surrounding my
+choice in OS over the years. Just a small fraction of which
+was logged in the update section. As of now I run Gentoo on
+my main machine, Void on one of the RPis running wrpr.us and
+Debian/Raspbian on the other two pi's. Although I'm counting
+this iteration of these thoughts as distro hopping, it's a
+little different. For years now, at least a few times a
+year, I play with the notion of creating, publishing and
+maintaining a Linux distro.
+
+Now you might be thinking "We don’t need anymore distros" or
+something along the lines. Which is why I've never fully
+committed to the idea, but now might be different. I see
+projects like Kiss Linux and Crux Linux and love their sim-
+plicity, I see what Nix is doing but simultaneously see the
+drama in the Nix community, the lawsuits surrounding Red hat
+and the spending habits of the Linux Foundation. So I can’t
+help but think 'Why can’t it be better?'
+
+What exactly is better? in my opinion of course
+
+
+ (1) Focus - A project should focus on it's absolute core
+ values. All software, hardware, standards, licenses
+ and the such are all tools meant to be used. Not per-
+ sonality traits, not vectors for political action,
+ not for activism, etc. Unless a tool was designed
+ for something (like activism) leave it alone. The
+ NixOs fiasco really got to me if you couldn't tell,
+ it’s a Linux distro calm down.
+
+
+ (2) Kernel - This Idea might be a Fork of one of the big
+ 3 BSDs, Instead of Linux. But will most likely be
+ Linux for now, just because I'm more familiar with
+ the kernel. In short we’ll see, I don't intend on
+ rushing development.
+
+
+ (3) Minimizing - I really love the Kiss software repo
+ bloat idea. Keeping the main repo a small list of
+ high quality, vetted, stable software to keep the
+ base system running would be ideal. And lets be hon-
+ est - this will make any endeavors in maintenance
+ easier.
+
+
+
+
+ Kinda forgot about this post, going to post what I
+ have anyways. Had a lightning strike, needed a new
+ router, had some more networking issues after. and
+ had a busy July. Anyways, the idea still stands, I
+ might make a distro or something like a meta-distro.
+ Who’s knows - it'll probably end up being more of a
+ personal project instead of something meant for any
+ serious production.
+
+
