@freya @BrodieOnLinux makes sense, ofc.
/etc/init file for space reasons alone.Tho in fairness I'm shure #SMF did inspire #Apple to do #LaunchD which in turn was copied with #SystemD, abeit all 3 are very much centric about the Kernel and Userland they target.
@freya @BrodieOnLinux I mean, why not?
If someone wants to make a "Square-Wheeled Car" then they can...
Me wanting to do something #GNUfree and going "statically compiled binaries only" is also a bit of "headbanging against concrete" kinda style...
@lavxnews point is: "reinventing the wheel" is rarely easy nor worth the effort.
That's why I use #Linux, #toybox and #musl for
OS/1337 ...
@bagder Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see #curl to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in #complexity and #size.
I mean, does curl need to be able to do #BitTorrent (magnet:), #IPFS (ipfs://) or god forbid #blockchain (i.e. #EVM) support?
Do you really want to integrate @torproject / #Tor support natively into curl when using #HTTP (localhost:8118) and #SOCKS5 (localhost:9050) #proxy allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??
In fact if #toybox didn't have a #wget implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen tiny-curl -o as a global alias or if #tinycurl wasn't an option, curl -o instead.
tor support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. #neocurl or sth. along those lines or build something like #ethcurl or #torcurlor #ipfscurl or whatever...That being said I am glad curl isn't solely maintained by you but has other contributors (give them a shoutout!) but I also am glad you maintain that vital software that most "#TechIlliterate #Normies" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the #tech they use to #consume media with...
curl is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than vim) with wget being "the #vi of downloaders" (tho wget is even simpler to use than vi)...Either way, curl is awesome...
@SweetAIBelle very nifty...
Ideally with some nifty tools (compareable to Tails' #PersistentSotrage) to allow mounting local/remote storage as $HOME and potentially leverage toram as boot option.
Certainly that "#RescueLinux" part is mid- to ongterm goal of OS/1337 and I am working on it (abeit at a pace slower than I want to cuz 'things happen in meatspace' and those sadly require my full attention...
Using #ArchLinux is quite good because it makes it easy to get started and adapt said system as need be.
@dalias @eniko Personally, I'll sooner or later have to engange the whole #ARMv5 / #ARM11r7 / #RaspberryPi architecture anyway with OS/1337.
But I know a #readonly - OS isn't practical and where it is people already use #iPXE & #iSCSI for #diskless setups!
/boot on an SD card, and the rest could be on any USB mass storage device (i.e. SSD or even HDD)...That being said Raspberry Pi do have the key advantage of being by far the best in terms of #documentation.
@nixCraft cool...
Personally I'd propably make a "screenless" #NUCbook down the lane and use that as an #AiO similar to those that @vwestlife seemingly likes...
Would've been the ideal testing system for OS/1337 ....
@HoustonDog I mean, as of now #OS1337 is already loading into RAM and once loaded runs entirely off it.
Anyway, the short-term solution would be to setup some #iPXE "Internet Boot Server" on boot.os1337.com to download @OS1337 into RAM and boot that...
Cuz that may be a quick and dirty option to get the latest version at boot...
Maybe @thisdoesnotcomp can see if OS/1337 runs fine on his #ThinPad #390E:
Or as a #minimalist #firmware one could chug on a #Pi0 / #Pi0W inside a VT-69 from @violenceworks to turn it into a #SSH-#Terminal...
Needless to say thanks to @landley for his extensive talks and #documentation to make it quite easy to get started...
@cameronbosch @funkybuddha @itsfoss That being said AFAICT #RedoxOS at least has a #GUI, so unlike #OS1337 there's way less work necessary to build applications for it.
@arrjay which is why I intent to package it for my #GNUfree #toybox + #musl / #linux distro called OS/1337...
Because #GnuPG sadly is the prime example of what @landley once said: '[...] #OpenSource can't do [good] #UI'[...]
There is nice looking #FLOSS but #GPG is really one of those things that gets beginners to choose violence in their dreams...
It also allows you to add some cool functions in your .bash_aliases if you so choose.
encrypt $FILEMANE $KEYFILE that then spits out $FILENAME.encrypted.asc as a #PGP-encrypted file... Either way, #enc is a pretty awesome tool and I think it's one of those essentials anyone looking for a #TUI / #CLI-first distro would want.
@tante making a #WebBrowser is worse than DIY'ing #Encryption or a #Linux distro...
Just because both take less resources and I did both (tho the encryption was a #shitpost unlike #OS1337) doesn't mean either are trivial...