[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes of Sunday March 1, 2020

[aaronco36]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> from [01]:

> 1150 Aaron C. came it with one of his 32 bit laptops.
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> Aaron C. told Jim about a new set of Libraries apparently
> making it easier to avoid systemd. I will welcome their
> input about the matter.

That "new set of Libraries" is the musl-libc alternative to glibc. 
Quoting [02]:

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musl is an implementation of the C standard library built on top of the 
Linux system call API, including interfaces defined in the base language 
standard, POSIX, and widely agreed-upon extensions. musl is lightweight, 
fast, simple, free, and strives to be correct in the sense of 
standards-conformance and safety.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A nice description of musl vs glibc is at Reddit's 'ELI5: What is musl and 
glibc?' [03].

For "one of [my] 32 bit laptops", I downloaded and then installed Void 
Linux, "the first distribution to switch to LibreSSL by default, replacing 
OpenSSL"[04].  Void Linux uses runit as the default init system instead of 
systemd [05].  Semi-unfortunately, I was restricted to using Void's 
i686-glibc for that 32 bit laptop [06] instead of musl, for reasons that 
may be best explained within the Void Linux's 'Musl' entry [07].

IIRC, I also mentioned to Jim about other non-systemd distros which use 
alternate init systems; the advanced 64bit Arch-based Obarun Linux [08] 
which uses skarnet's s6 small suite of programs [09] "to allow process 
supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and 
runit", and the 64bit Arch-based Artix Linux which can now use runit, 
OpenRC _or_ s6 as the installed init systems (alternate init system ISO 
downloads currently listed in [11].

-A


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REFERENCES
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[011]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q1/014584.html
[02]https://musl.libc.org/
[03]https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/41q2m9/eli5_what_is_musl_and_glibc/
[04]https://voidlinux.org/
[05]https://wiki.voidlinux.org/Runit
[06]https://wiki.voidlinux.org/Live_Images
[07]https://wiki.voidlinux.org/Musl
[08]https://web.obarun.org/
[09]https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/
[10]https://artixlinux.org/
[11]https://download.artixlinux.org/isos.php
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