Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z

Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by aaaaaaron on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:34AM (#42440164)

> It doesn't overwhelm you with thousands of packages and dozens of boot services right in a fresh install. On the contrary, it does only what you tell it to do. It puts you in charge and makes you feel like you can understand it top to bottom.

Just like Arch Linux and Gentoo, of course.

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by fensgrim on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:49AM (#42440247)

> just like Arch Linux

and even Arch (Artix) can't be stripped of elogind and such

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by movq on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:59AM (#42440316)

I don't know if it works on Artix, but there is seatd [1], which works with wlroots compositors in place of (e)logind.

seatd is ~6k lines of code compared to elogind's ~200k.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by ruthmarx on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:34AM (#42451995)

Alpine and Void are better for this IMO.

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