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Alpine is really good. I've been slowly migrating my boxen to it. Just deployed 3 dedis recently running it, a handful of VMs, and I'm installing it on my laptop before I go for holiday travel. I still have a couple of gripes but they've done a damn good job. Note: I use the vanilla kernel distribution.

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Aren't you the creator of Sway? I recognize the username. Great work! I have a feeling you'll be the next big WM for Linux Desktop. Nothing compares to i3/Sway with a mechanical keyboard. Even Windows is moving applications to tabbed interfaces:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/28/16709190/microsoft-windo...

Thanks! I'm glad you like it.

Isn't the first thing you do to install GNU coreutils? Busybox is neat, but unusable for day to day usage, IMO.

Does that mean the AG Unix is on hold (or dead?). Btw, not sure if it's related to Alpine or not, but your servers are unreachable for me at the moment ;-)

agunix is dead, I killed the server the other day. I never quite accomplished the goals I set out with and had to make too many compromises. I might eventually try again with a different approach or just contribute to Alpine until I run out of gripes.

Ah, well, understandable. After reading about what it took to just bootstrap, it looks like a colossal amount of work to do a distro.

Running Arch at the moment but I am looking at Alpine or maybe one of the BSD's as an alternative.

Well, I got that far, I had a fully bootstrapped distro and was building a whole lot of packages. I just had to compromise on too many of my goals and I felt the distro eventually was no longer distinguished enough from its peers to be worth continuing.

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