zerogara

When you say you "prefer" what other system did you try and what was the issue that was solved by systemd?

how can you tell what people care about?

The vast majority of unix/linux "media" are sponsored by a handful of industries that all "sell" systemd based distros. Who makes a living writing for a linux media outfit who will turn against the interests of those who pay his salary?

How do you know there is a choice for people if you don't know the amount of bias there is in media what to project as "mainstream" and "popular". When Distrowatch a little while ago, run a poll, about init systems, systemd DID NOT come 1st, and its 3-4 top adversaries got 60% of the votes. Based on this I'd say systemd is a little second class adversary that can only get newbs fooled to use it because that is what mass media tells them they should try.

Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora. This is what media is pushing down peoples' throats.

What does this have to do with Obarun?

Why not start with Arch or Obarun. Very few other distros allow so much hacking and choice as arch (and arch-based).

To start an independent and autonomous distro you need to build a few thousand packages first. The wealth of Arch+AUR is nearly unbeatable.

LFS is good exercise but that is about it. Reinventing the wheel is not very sensible.

you sound like the mod that removed it!

Coincidence?

Thank you monsieur

Obarun is a real breath of fresh air. By the time the image downloaded I had read some of the documentation about 66, I am a little familiar with s6 and its advantages (I don't think any other system makes better use of the kernel than s6) and I was happy to see a simple way to make s6 work.

This is really what makes s6 hard and less known, it is missing what 66 provides to average user.

I haven't used systemd for more than a few times testing distros, and the difference on machines that are older is HUGE. Anything with systemd on old machinery is like a messed up windows installation dragging its feet to do any little thing. I can't understand how can so many people defend it WHEN THEY HAVEN'T TRIED ANYTHING ELSE. It is obvious they haven't.

I use void and runit and I run a very simple system, so s6/66 is a ton of luxury, and between a minimalist runit system and an s6 system there is little performance difference. But after seeing Obarun I am ready to try 66 on Void.

If you care about space more than you care about speed you may want to stick with xz, it is hard to beat or impossible by zstd. So set your own priorities rather than adopt the ones of Arch devs.

As long as there will be support within the tools for xz individual builders of packages for their own use can use either or more.

Most of the results published show very little positive or negative speed in decompression, where is all this -1300% coming from?

edit: Sorry, my fault that was decompression RAM I was thinking about, not speed, although I was influenced by my test that without measuring both xz and zstd seemed instant.