Building a “real” Linux distro

Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:03PM (#14274948)

To be fair, I also hate every other init system.

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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by tehabe on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:12PM (#14275029)

Essentially a perfectionist who can't settle, reminds me of myself.

I've made a good experience with Arch Linux, and since I didn't care much about the init system it worked quite well for me. Sadly the hardware didn't so I ended up in another world again. Happens I guess.

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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by mixedCase on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:13PM (#14275564)

What would you like to see in an init system/service manager?

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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:22PM (#14275629)

runit but with better code, basically.

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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by JdeBP on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:10PM (#14277805)

There are plenty of workalikes available.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html

That said, I disagree with your premise that runit has bad code.

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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:17PM (#14277839)

Thanks for the link! I'll have a look at these.

>That said, I disagree with your premise that runit has bad code.

Have you seen it? Bad code may be subjective, but it certainly doesn't come close to my standards.

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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by JdeBP on Saturday May 06, 2017 @05:35AM (#14279496)

Of course I have seen it. A lot of it is the same free Bernstein libraries that have been used by Felix von Leitner, Paul Jarc, Laurent Bercot, et al., with some of the same C1999 modernizations; and that inspired various similar libraries.

* http://www.fefe.de/djb/

* http://www.skarnet.org/software/skalibs/libstddjb/

* http://untroubled.org/bglibs/

* http://www.fefe.de/libowfat/

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