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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

For Arch Linux:

support a different process supervisor
- dinit, or
- s6 with some high level sugar
don't use Bash anywhere
- port down to POSIX, and
- port up to Zsh
- port minimal launchers to execline
replace PKGBUILD format, maybe with
- nearly identical but Zsh
- NestedText containing Zsh snippets
  - use this to render Zsh based on templates
    - my favorite template engine: wheezy.template
build packages with more optimizations, like the CachyOS repos
include or endorse something like aconfmgr
port conf files to NestedText

[–] Falcon 3 points 8 months ago

I couldn’t agree more with this, projects like artix are undermined by all the hard dependencies on systemd and Bash.

Void attracted me because of the support for posix, runit and musl (plus good zfs support). It’s unfortunate that Arch doesn’t have that greater portability.

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