it’s nice to see people are still doing this; bravo!
i’ve also intended to try my hand at this, but my inner masochist is too lazy for it. lol
I’m not masochistic my self lol, I just tired with ordinary distro.
that part of my comment was meant to be a self indictment/reflection; i’m a bit of a linux cuck since i’ve adapted myself to fit ordinary distros’ designs instead of creating something that works for me. lol
that’s why i marvel at people who do the needful that i should be doing, like here.
I’m curious, how well has Musl been for software compatibility? How did you resolve any that came up?
For musl, I’ve been actively using it for 7 months now and just encounter minor issue. Some packages need to be patched for musl compatibility (I borrow the patches from alpine linux).
I use Chimera Linux which is musl based. Compatibility is great. If you have the source, you are probably fine.
It can be a pain for projects that ship binaries as part of the build. Two examples that I have run into:
- The Ladybird browser uses vpkg and the version their scripts download assumes Glibc. You can build vpkg itself on musl but the whole process is a pain.
- dotnet requires a binary build of dotnet to bootstrap from. There are musl builds available but they assume GCC and Chimera uses Clang. Not really a musl problem now that I think of it.
Anyway, I use a Distrobox of Arch on Chimera. If I do run into something (like the two above), I just pop into that and problem solved.
Flatpak is essentially the same solution as they run in a container and the freedesktop base is Glibc based.
Not only is musl not generally a problem but, these days, it is trivial to work around it.
This is my next project for when I discover a reserve of time and energy I didn’t know I had.
You will go back to your “usual” linux setup when you realize that most packages you set up with LFS are now broken and you’ll need to redo the whole process again.
t. arch linux minimal installation only master race
Meh, archlinux is overrated.
Gentoo is the only way.
The only issue with LFS is maintenance. It is one thing to set it up but having to manually keep it all up to date does not sound like fun.
I’m currently trying seatd+turnstile+greetd on Artix-dinit and Void (Runit), so far everything stable. s6 usersv would be an alternative for turnstile+dinit but i see s6 more on server, personally.
This reminds me, i wanted to try mdev for a long time (there’s mdev like a boss).
You are using Turnstile on Void? Cool.
Now try BSD ;)
Meh, laptop support is still mess.
