So i recently learned about a distro that has popped up called venom linux. It’s a sourced based distro using the package manager called “scratch”
I am very familiar with gentoo linux and this seems like it has heavy inspiration from the gentoo project. Its very cool to see another source based distro come into the picture. The unique part is it has 2 init systems currently, which are neither systemd or openrc?!?!
They are S6 and sysv Which i have never heard of until now. The install looks via similar to gentoo/classic distro install. Which consists of creating partition schemes and filesystems then extracting a archive of the base file.
Some of the main taking points are
"Minimal as possible
Customizable
No systemd (elogind or any part from it)
Centered Around smaller software
That means the lack of huge software like Gnome"
I thought this was a pretty neat project and wonder what other gentoo users think aswell as binary distro users
Been using Gentoo since Jan 2009 and one of the reasons I moved to it and never looked back was because it let me tailor “huge software” like KDE to my needs, with the aid of USE flags and sets. That’s what an actual customizable distro let you to do. If you want to use “smaller software” like, say, Openbox, it won’t get in your way either.
So that point of “centered around smaller software” strucks as weird to me - it goes against the “customizability” point and, ironically, the very Linux kernel is “huge software”…