Re: [dev] which minimal os

Thanks, Andrei. Will give it a look. I've only ever heard it spoke it
in passing. Guess I should give it a run, just to see.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Andrei <frunzales_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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