Linux Distro

= Idea for a linux distro =

I got frustrated about not being able to gopher:// links work on arch linux despite following "freedesktop" rules. So I started thinking about making a linux distro. I may not do it but i'll use this page for notes.

Ideas and Goals

 * Simplify /. I want / to be much simpler. I want a single /bin folder. a single /lib folder. etc. The FHS.
 * Atomic package upgrades. Use a nix/guix style store and have everything in /bin, /lib symlinks back into it, in order to implement atomic upgrades.
 * Use musl libc instead of glibc.
 * A better pid1. There is an anti-systemd trend at the moment but I do not feel the alternatives are better. I think we would need to implement a new init system.

Negatives

 * No dbus

Debates

 * static linking.

has positives and negatives. openssl updates roughly every 3 weeks, if statically linked that would force the web browser to be rebuilt, which can take hours. Is this really an argument against static linking or is it one against the quality of software engineering for web browsers?