Picking a new distribution - GNU/Linux

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z3bra
Grey Hair Nixers
Best reason to use Void is to have a fully working musl-based distro in no times, and easy to use. However, last time I tried (probably monthes/a year ago now), a 100% musl distro was painful in some cases (eg. awful/inexistent javascript support in firefox).

As you said, the only viable package manager for portability is pkgsrc. And as it works basically everywhere, you can pick any distro. I'd recommend a stable one so your core doesn't change much (like debian or fedora), and "build" on top of that.

I used to do that myself (and still do it !). I wrote my own package manager (pm(1)) which I use as a complement of whatever is the "default" package manager on the distro I use (currently successfully tested on crux, openbsd, debian and ubuntu). It's not "portable" though, as it's tailored to my particular needs, but you can totally replace that with pkgsrc IMO.


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Picking a new distribution - by stratex - 08-05-2021, 05:45 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by jkl - 11-05-2021, 02:26 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by TheAnachron - 11-05-2021, 06:22 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by stratex - 11-05-2021, 11:28 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by mcotocel - 20-08-2021, 10:50 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by freem - 26-08-2021, 07:57 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by z3bra - 30-08-2021, 11:19 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by jkl - 01-09-2021, 03:00 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by z3bra - 01-09-2021, 04:31 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by jkl - 02-09-2021, 04:01 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by freem - 09-09-2021, 01:24 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by z3bra - 10-09-2021, 03:31 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by freem - 19-09-2021, 04:57 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by petar - 16-11-2021, 07:08 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by jkl - 17-11-2021, 12:04 AM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by pfr - 17-11-2021, 10:30 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by movq - 21-11-2021, 02:31 PM
RE: Picking a new distribution - by r1w1s1 - 13-04-2024, 03:11 PM