S6 and 66 on Funtoo, does it work, does it boot ?

[deleted] · Nov 9, 2019

Everything started few years ago in the shadow of the spotlight, with this innovative project that Eric named 66 and decided to materialize as a frontend of S6 .

I saw the birth of eric's baby, I saw his baby growing up and reaching adolescence and maturity. So, few days ago, I thought it was time to make an installation on another distribution.

My first choice was GoboLinux, but I gave up with this idea when I started wasting more time with the updating of the distribution instead of working on the goal I had set myself.

I decided to switch on funtoo, a fork of gentoo, a meta-distribution that I know pretty well since it was my main distribution for several years.

After few days of work, liters of coffee, and with help and advice from eric, I can show you the first result

Funtoo-emerge-S6/66

It works very well, and I personally want to congratulate eric's work. Eric, you can be proud of your creation.

Thx

banned_9-26-2021 · Nov 9, 2019

congratulations
Performance wise how do you compare with arch/obarun? Is it a significant difference?

Mmarianarlt · Nov 9, 2019

Wow, congratulations for having the patience to test this and for making it work.
Congratulations Eric, if we keep bugging you for bugs here and there you might have come up with the future of init, now let's make people notice! :D
Very awesome. 66 should work on ANY distro out there and on Unix as well if it was for me.

I know I could google this, but from your personal experience what's the difference between Funtoo and Gentoo for you?

[deleted] · Nov 9, 2019

@ marianarlt

Funtoo Linux is based on snapshot of Gentoo Linux, plus a variety of package updates in selected areas. Funtoo contain all ebuilds in Gentoo that existed at the time of the snapshot, plus drobbins and user community improvements.
Funtoo Linux uses a modular Portage tree called "meta-repo" and has a special command called ego and subcommand epro which is used to sync the tree, manage funtoo Profiles, manage boot configuration, and do other things.
Funtoo provide optimized CPU Subarches stage3 archives.

@ fungalnet
I can not say right now because the work is done with a VM and a generic stage3 archive. Otherwise it works exactly in the same way with small differences regarding the path of system-services which is /usr/share/66/service and the init executable inside /sbin. Some services need a little modification because executable are in different directory.

EDIT: I talked today on Funtoo IRC channel about my work, I got an offer to register myself on the Funtoo forum to talk about my work and shared it. Some of funtoo users are curious and interested to learn more about 66.

banned_9-26-2021 · Nov 10, 2019

Another option for a quick easy installation of gentoo which you can use as a base to just do upgrades in Clover. Clover has a precompiled repository of packages and you can install and boot in as much time as installing arch or obarun. Then the fun begins with emerging and flags. You can gradually begin to replace everything within your system by your own. Hard core Gentoo-ers may disagree with this approach but for someone wanting to try it out for the first time it may help you decide whether it is for you or not a week earlier :) Redcore does some of this too but redcore has its own twists on things while clover is closer to genuine gentoo.

[deleted] · Nov 18, 2019

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