distro-temptations-07-03-24.txt (2618B)
1 2024-03-07 2 3 The ever present distro temptations 4 5 Hop Hop Hop... I've had multiple temptations surrounding my 6 choice in OS over the years. Just a small fraction of which 7 was logged in the update section. As of now I run Gentoo on 8 my main machine, Void on one of the RPis running wrpr.us and 9 Debian/Raspbian on the other two pi's. Although I'm counting 10 this iteration of these thoughts as distro hopping, it's a 11 little different. For years now, at least a few times a 12 year, I play with the notion of creating, publishing and 13 maintaining a Linux distro. 14 15 Now you might be thinking "We don’t need anymore distros" or 16 something along the lines. Which is why I've never fully 17 committed to the idea, but now might be different. I see 18 projects like Kiss Linux and Crux Linux and love their sim- 19 plicity, I see what Nix is doing but simultaneously see the 20 drama in the Nix community, the lawsuits surrounding Red hat 21 and the spending habits of the Linux Foundation. So I can’t 22 help but think 'Why can’t it be better?' 23 24 What exactly is better? in my opinion of course 25 26 27 (1) Focus - A project should focus on it's absolute core 28 values. All software, hardware, standards, licenses 29 and the such are all tools meant to be used. Not per- 30 sonality traits, not vectors for political action, 31 not for activism, etc. Unless a tool was designed 32 for something (like activism) leave it alone. The 33 NixOs fiasco really got to me if you couldn't tell, 34 it’s a Linux distro calm down. 35 36 37 (2) Kernel - This Idea might be a Fork of one of the big 38 3 BSDs, Instead of Linux. But will most likely be 39 Linux for now, just because I'm more familiar with 40 the kernel. In short we’ll see, I don't intend on 41 rushing development. 42 43 44 (3) Minimizing - I really love the Kiss software repo 45 bloat idea. Keeping the main repo a small list of 46 high quality, vetted, stable software to keep the 47 base system running would be ideal. And lets be hon- 48 est - this will make any endeavors in maintenance 49 easier. 50 51 52 53 54 Kinda forgot about this post, going to post what I 55 have anyways. Had a lightning strike, needed a new 56 router, had some more networking issues after. and 57 had a busy July. Anyways, the idea still stands, I 58 might make a distro or something like a meta-distro. 59 Who’s knows - it'll probably end up being more of a 60 personal project instead of something meant for any 61 serious production. 62 63