On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:07:42PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:06:45 +0200
> pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually i'm happy with arch linux, but, i really miss a non-gnu
> > linux and minimalistic distribution. We should get a look on
> > alternatives for glibc (google one? uclibc? ..) but maybe the biggest
> > rock we will face it will be the X server...this is probably one of
> > the interesting projects to work on, but without keeping the X
> > compatibility.
>
> Any reason why you need a non-gnu distro? I don't see how that would
> make things suckless. I would wish for a perl-free world, but it would
> probably not happen any time soon.
Building a recent Linux kernel actually requires perl and at some point
they even considered rewriting the whole or at least a large part of
the build system in perl. Don't know what they decided in the end.
Marc
-- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0Received on Sat May 16 2009 - 11:51:57 UTC
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