Re: [dev] which minimal os

Hello Brandon,

I believe CRUX did have some influence on Arch but the latter has nothing to
do with CRUX. The difference consists in different package managers (pacman
vs pkgutils) although pacman is somewhat similar to CRUX's pkgutils,
ports-like package management, where one would download the specific
Pkgfile, paches and relevant sources while pkgmk would compile and then
invoke pkgadd to install the port.

--
Andrei
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Brandon LaRocque <
larocque.brandon_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Wasn't CRUX the biggest influence on the creation of Arch? I could be
> wrong. I haven't used it, though. What's the difference between it and
> Arch? It's one of the distros one doesn't really hear much about, from
> what I've seen.
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Andrei <frunzales_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > evening,
> > I'd suggest CRUX, http://crux.nu - It doesn't do any hand holding and it
> has
> > a simple package manager similar to BSD ports.
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:45 PM, v4hn <me_AT_v4hn.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> evening,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:35:31PM -0500, Claudiu Bucur wrote:
> >> > it [gentoo] has been my closest experience to what
> >> > i imagine "linux from scratch" would be like.
> >>
> >> You should try Lunar (lunar-linux.org) or SourceMage (sourcemage.org)
> >> then.
> >> Those systems _are_ LFS with a couple of bash scripts to handle
> >> modules... :)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:26:21PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> >> > gentoo is a pile of shit [...]
> >> > archlinux is just gentoo but less well maintained.
> >> > debian is a bloated monstrosity
> >> > ubuntu has all the drawbacks of debian with all the incompetence of
> arch
> >> > linux.
> >> > netbsd is run by crackpots.
> >> > freebsd is decent but not as nice as openbsd
> >>
> >> yeah, everything's fubar,
> >> so I wonder why you even take your time writing such an idiotic mail...
> >> Go and fix it :P
> >>
> >>
> >> v4hn
> >
> >
>
>