On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> What would you choose for a really minimal OS?
Just to answer OP's question, CRUX is what you want. Minimalism at its
best, easy packaging, clean and elegant design, simple and powerful.
Don't believe others, I'm right.
Kurt is the new Uriel.
I, for one, welcome our new resident troll.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Michael Farnbach
wrote:
> Except in this thread, because, well, the original post was inviting a
> distro war, wasn't it?
It wasn't. Asking for feedback isn't asking for a troll. Some may forgot that.
- benoît.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Michael Farnbach
> wrote:
>> One of the first things I learned many years ago watching the flame wars
>> on Slashdot is that there are two types of people...(roughly)
>
> 1) Those who don't invalidate other p
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Michael Farnbach
wrote:
> One of the first things I learned many years ago watching the flame wars
> on Slashdot is that there are two types of people...(roughly)
1) Those who don't invalidate other people's opinons based on presentation
2) You.
--
# Kurt H Mai
One of the first things I learned many years ago watching the flame wars
on Slashdot is that there are two types of people...(roughly)
1) People who learn to love things for what they can do, and appreciate them
for what they are. These people tend to write nice things, that help do what
they alre
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> That's highly possible – I have limited lifetime though and having a
> comfortable work environment as I do now, I will probably never have
> the incentive to devote a substantial number of hours checking whether
> the hardware and the soft
Kurt H Maier dixit (2011-02-16, 19:48):
> >Also, suggesting that people run *bsd on some modern commodity
> >hardware (especially laptops) is totally unrealistic.
>
> That just tells me you have no experience or understanding regarding
> the matter. I run linux on my laptop... but mostly because
Hi,
Using an authorized_keys file similiar to ssh would be interesting as well.
A friend of mine pointed that out, and I don't really like the centralised
nature of CAs.
Best,
Moritz
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> Why would I want to? I don't like Python. Still, by comparison to
> dpkg-reconfigure it's pretty sane. And it works.
"It's better than debian" is a weak endorsement
> Since it's a source-based distro obviously I'm calling packages
> somet
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:28:15 -0500
Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> > Gentoo has a good balance in not being overengineered like Debian
> > (dpkg-reconfigure and all that hell)
>
> bullshit, just look at emerge
>
> look at it
No, emerge is under-
Antoni Grzymala dixit (2011-02-17, 01:40):
> > if you want to see how this can be done correctly, look at freebsd
> > or openbsd, where software can be built -or- installed from
> > packages.
>
> I did look and I found an obscure mess of working or non-working
> makefiles. Somewhat akin to arch's
Kurt H Maier dixit (2011-02-16, 19:28):
> > Gentoo has a good balance in not being overengineered like Debian
> > (dpkg-reconfigure and all that hell)
>
> bullshit, just look at emerge
>
> look at it
Why would I want to? I don't like Python. Still, by comparison to
dpkg-reconfigure it's pretty
Attached is a very slightly updated version of the patch, which is
functionally the same, but neater.
diff -r 7a931a352cf9 config.def.h
--- a/config.def.h Thu Sep 09 11:15:02 2010 +0200
+++ b/config.def.h Thu Feb 17 00:46:22 2011 +
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
/* modifier 0 means no modifier */
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> Gentoo has a good balance in not being overengineered like Debian
> (dpkg-reconfigure and all that hell)
bullshit, just look at emerge
look at it
> and having a decent quality
> package tree (unlike arch).
what package tree? where do
Hi folks,
The lack of any certificate checking in surf has been getting to me
for some time, and I finally got around to fixing it.
The attached patch checks the certificates against a ca file
(specified in config.h). If there's a failure, the progress bar goes
red (I changed the default http pro
c...@wzff.de dixit (2011-02-17, 00:33):
> Excerpts from Claudiu Bucur's message of Fri Feb 11 22:35:31 +0100 2011:
> > gentoo is as minimal as you can get or as complex as you want. you compile
> > everything locally, with the help of the portage repository (even the
> > kernel). it has been my cl
>> gentoo is as minimal as you can get or as complex as you want. you compile
>> everything locally, with the help of the portage repository (even the
>> kernel). it has been my closest experience to what i imagine "linux from
>> scratch" would be like.
>>
>> also, the gentoo boards are the most ac
Excerpts from Claudiu Bucur's message of Fri Feb 11 22:35:31 +0100 2011:
> gentoo is as minimal as you can get or as complex as you want. you compile
> everything locally, with the help of the portage repository (even the
> kernel). it has been my closest experience to what i imagine "linux from
>
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Michael Farnbach
wrote:
> As with most answers, this one depends on a few things...
>
> Do you want it tiny for an alternative arch, like ARM?
> Do you want it tiny and fast, because it is running on something really old?
> Do you want it tiny and fast because you
I have packaged musl in slpm* and it xompiles pretty nicely. The code os clean
and short and a static hello world takes 2.5KB. Which is great.
I have been statically linking other programs with slpm and musl and i got some
headaches like missing definitions in some include files an so on. But i
On 02/12/11 19:48, pmarin wrote:
> Have anyone tried it?
> http://www.etalabs.net/musl/
>
>
Looks promising!
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