I have tried Nutyx in the past few days, a new exercise in minimalism, and I found it to be a fun experiment.
It is French in origin, lists as Swiss in dw, and I am wondering whether there is some legal complexity in Fr creating language demands from distros to be based in France. Some of the repository pkg descriptions are in French, although the majority is in English.
It says it is based on LFS and advanced LFS, it is gnu-linux, and I begun to wonder how somethings I thought were standard gnu-linux may not be as standard or globally adopted. Like their /etc/default was pretty empty, or grub worked with /dev/ descriptions instead of uuid and would go on kernel panic if you substituted uuids.
They have about 5 desktops to play with, I only tried openbox. Their pkg repository is pretty lean but standard and they have all the right tools to port pkgs from source. It is a fast and lean system and I think it is a very good base for someone wanting to learn linux. Sysvinit is the only init system available, elogind doesn't exist, but they have wayland available. I started openbox with consolekit2, no-dm or xdm. I got a fully functional desktop and tools with under 2GB of space, no browser or office stuff. Unlike Alpine things seem pretty functional out of the box. You simply install the base and what pkgs you need and they all work. Their pkg manager, cards, is also very lean and functional.
Maybe this is how linux was meant to be.
It is French in origin, lists as Swiss in dw, and I am wondering whether there is some legal complexity in Fr creating language demands from distros to be based in France. Some of the repository pkg descriptions are in French, although the majority is in English.
It says it is based on LFS and advanced LFS, it is gnu-linux, and I begun to wonder how somethings I thought were standard gnu-linux may not be as standard or globally adopted. Like their /etc/default was pretty empty, or grub worked with /dev/ descriptions instead of uuid and would go on kernel panic if you substituted uuids.
They have about 5 desktops to play with, I only tried openbox. Their pkg repository is pretty lean but standard and they have all the right tools to port pkgs from source. It is a fast and lean system and I think it is a very good base for someone wanting to learn linux. Sysvinit is the only init system available, elogind doesn't exist, but they have wayland available. I started openbox with consolekit2, no-dm or xdm. I got a fully functional desktop and tools with under 2GB of space, no browser or office stuff. Unlike Alpine things seem pretty functional out of the box. You simply install the base and what pkgs you need and they all work. Their pkg manager, cards, is also very lean and functional.
Maybe this is how linux was meant to be.