1
https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?id=85 Plasma on Obarun
2
https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1702# p1702 Convert Arch to Obarun
3
https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/196 Convert Manjaro to Obarun
As a continuation to the trend, and although I have little experience and interest on KDE-plasma, I tried BlueStar that is a plasma oriented distribution, based on Arch.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bluestar
Then I followed Eric's procedure(2) in converting the new installation to obarun and s-6 and the nasty init system went away.
Result: A plasma desktop that went from 900MB Ram to about half or less on start.
Everything seemed to be working well and was very stable, the artwork that BlueStar has is great, and they have a very large repository of software. They include some software that has been repricated in Arch, like gksudo.
The only negative is their repository doesn't have a keyring so you have to trust what comes from surgeforge.
[bluestar]
SigLevel = Never TrustAll
# Server = http://osdn.dl.osdn.jp/storage/g/b/bl/bluestarlinux/repo/$arch
Server = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bluestarlinux/repo/$arch
I was just wondering whether all this "gui-gathering" would hold up without systemd and it seems it does very well.
I am back to my openbox now, regaining sanity. Too many things moving around was making me sea-sick and I never get sea-sick at sea.