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2022 Linux/BSD Popularity Poll
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TheShortTimer
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Mint for the desktop and Smoothwall as a Firewall solution have been my favourites through the years. 🙂
sparty411
macrumors 6502a
Void because it's "simple and lean" to the extremes without needing to compile like Gentoo requires, but since 2023 it's around the corner maybe I have to take some time again to learn how to do it 😵 if I wanna a Linux up to date.
To be specific Void GLIBC because on my PPC (32 or 64) I like to be able to use "a modern" browser (thanks @wicknix again!) Because of many issues, quirks and incompatibilities that needed to be patched on a pure MUSL system to works, but when it works... It flies!
That's my hope on Adélie coming to PPC, besides Alpine their try to make some wizardry (compatibility layers and other things) to make GLIBC software "more compatible" but the downside to me it's not rolling release, and I don't like to reinstall or migrate my working machines. Just install, update and forget.
On my X86 (also X86_64) and Raspberry Pi it's Void MUSL all the way.
To be specific Void GLIBC because on my PPC (32 or 64) I like to be able to use "a modern" browser (thanks @wicknix again!) Because of many issues, quirks and incompatibilities that needed to be patched on a pure MUSL system to works, but when it works... It flies!
That's my hope on Adélie coming to PPC, besides Alpine their try to make some wizardry (compatibility layers and other things) to make GLIBC software "more compatible" but the downside to me it's not rolling release, and I don't like to reinstall or migrate my working machines. Just install, update and forget.
On my X86 (also X86_64) and Raspberry Pi it's Void MUSL all the way.
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Tratkazir_the_1st
macrumors 65816
Debian - because last installation was 1-2-3 🙂.
Gentoo - well, it's really configurable (but compilation time is not best, shall we say 🙂 ). (I still need to learn about crossdev & distcc.)
Gentoo - well, it's really configurable (but compilation time is not best, shall we say 🙂 ). (I still need to learn about crossdev & distcc.)
My suggestion it's to always look for available distros on this link (They recently changed the domain, so it's updated 😉) Because there are many more options that we know.
There was a topic from 2020 on their forums, but with questions, not a step-by-step on how to do it. So the user has to take any clues and put it together, because that's the problem in my point of view with Open Source: They make it so easy and PnP that don't require any action for the end user, or they make it so complicated that you need a really long beard and lot's of knowledge do properly do it.
That's something considering the power of modern machines that can make Gentoo a really viable option on our PowerPC's, but the problem as always it's the documentation (or lack of documentation in this case) since our machines are a small fraction (running Linux even less) they have a official documentation on how to do it for RaspberryPi.
There was a topic from 2020 on their forums, but with questions, not a step-by-step on how to do it. So the user has to take any clues and put it together, because that's the problem in my point of view with Open Source: They make it so easy and PnP that don't require any action for the end user, or they make it so complicated that you need a really long beard and lot's of knowledge do properly do it.
r34per
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My main pc runs void linux ppc so I try to stick with what I'm most familiar with on my powermacs. I run lubuntu on one of my g5's though.
Not ppc hardware but I do run netbsd on my sun blade 150, it works pretty well(at least after recompiling the kernel to get my gpu working) and makes me want to try it out on one of my powermacs
Not ppc hardware but I do run netbsd on my sun blade 150, it works pretty well(at least after recompiling the kernel to get my gpu working) and makes me want to try it out on one of my powermacs
Tratkazir_the_1st
macrumors 65816
GitHub - tarmiste/lfs-non-ia: Build Linux From Scratch for PowerPc and ARM
Build Linux From Scratch for PowerPc and ARM . Contribute to tarmiste/lfs-non-ia development by creating an account on GitHub.
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To my limited knowledge of Linux in general... Gentoo it's a more "automated and elegant" way of LFS, because you can customize it to the extremes restricting packages and configuration to an absurd granularity, but with that level of power you generally need to have an equal level of knowledge to properly manage it.Who thinks Gentoo is hard - just read about this monster 😀.
GitHub - tarmiste/lfs-non-ia: Build Linux From Scratch for PowerPc and ARM
Build Linux From Scratch for PowerPc and ARM . Contribute to tarmiste/lfs-non-ia development by creating an account on GitHub.
And unfortunately not everyone has (either for limited time to "dive and learn", or for the lack of documentation) what it takes without being close to lose to the insanity. But that doesn't means that isn't "fun".
Thanks for sharing this with us
