12-07-2018, 12:30 PM
Hi all, first post here, new pinebook owner. Been running/supporting unix since before linux was a thing, so I'm somewhat an "oldbie" ... and as such, I have no love for systemd. So of course, I'm looking for the most nimble OS for the pinebook which does not use systemd. Is there such a thing?
I have no fear of starting with a bare bones installation and adding the few things I personally need - but this takes time and planning and I would prefer to start with something that has most of what I need that can get me in the ballpark quickly. Unfortunately everything I've looked at so far seems to be based on a whizbang desktop with a lot going on.
So "lightest weight" in my case would include systemd-free, but in general would mean the smallest installation footprint in addition to lowest memory utilization and smallest number of running processes during my preferred session.
I spend 20% of my time in the firefox browser doing webmail and research, and 80% in the shell (either local shell/python or the same via ssh connection to one of the many servers I maintain). I've been using tiling window managers for a dozen years now; at any given time, I've used i3/sway/xmonad/wmii/awesome/scrotwm/spectrwm and a few others. My favored solutions would be those that work in linux on both intel and arm (of course), as well as openbsd/freebsd ...
Recommendations for any of these needs would be welcomed - particularly if they fill multiple (or all!) needs. I have not yet looked at the i3 pinebook image, though I plan to - but I'm expecting to find systemd there since it's based on a recent ubuntu ...
I have no fear of starting with a bare bones installation and adding the few things I personally need - but this takes time and planning and I would prefer to start with something that has most of what I need that can get me in the ballpark quickly. Unfortunately everything I've looked at so far seems to be based on a whizbang desktop with a lot going on.
So "lightest weight" in my case would include systemd-free, but in general would mean the smallest installation footprint in addition to lowest memory utilization and smallest number of running processes during my preferred session.
I spend 20% of my time in the firefox browser doing webmail and research, and 80% in the shell (either local shell/python or the same via ssh connection to one of the many servers I maintain). I've been using tiling window managers for a dozen years now; at any given time, I've used i3/sway/xmonad/wmii/awesome/scrotwm/spectrwm and a few others. My favored solutions would be those that work in linux on both intel and arm (of course), as well as openbsd/freebsd ...
Recommendations for any of these needs would be welcomed - particularly if they fill multiple (or all!) needs. I have not yet looked at the i3 pinebook image, though I plan to - but I'm expecting to find systemd there since it's based on a recent ubuntu ...