I mean, you can cross-compile to generate a Gentoo rootfs for the embedded system.

I worked on embedded systems for audio devices. I of course endorsed Alpine as well, but with musl as the C library I got weird bugs of stuttering audio output.

With Gentoo I get the option to build my entire system with musl as well, but I would rather have that bug not in my system. That’s what Gentoo offers: options.

By “LFS”, I think you mean Buildroot, practically. Buildroot is also highly customisable, but Buildroot isn’t a distro. Like LFS, there is no way yo update a system, only rebuilding with latest packages. It also does not have flags for the whole system, so you’re on your own if you want to disable, say IPv6, in the whole system.

Those things you listed are part of the fact, not all. Like saving 100kB. It does not matter in your 1TB hard drive, but it’s night and day in embedded systems. No benefit for you isn’t the same to no benefit.

Battery life? Yes, because it’s (mobile-grade) ARM. Performance? They are far behind high-end Ryzen or Ultra.

“I wanna try out this FreeBSD thing.”

Why not asking? How do you know which distro best fit the computer if you don’t know it’s screen size and colour? And do ask again when it becomes colder in winter!

But Error is a trait, not a type or an instance of any type.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/error/trait.Error.html

A tag would be a starting point. A client can filter posts by tags.

I feel the same way, man. Every question of “What distro should I use after Windows 10 EOL?” is just generic to enough to be damned to hell. “Oh, but can it run Microsoft WordPhotoshop/AutoCAD/Steam?” Or, “I only use it to watch YouTube.”

How about finding a question that was already answered by others?

How about trying it out on a virtual machine or a secondary computer?

Face it. Your need isn’t that unique at all. You’re just a normal user like 90% of the remaining.

Isn’t the word counter-clockwise?

Listen to this guy, OP. $5 says you will not be allowed to use brew.sh and have to install a limited selection of software from the companies repository.

And it was one of the few distros who supports running without systemd. I do need the freedom to use whichever init system I prefer. Some let me do it with just a few lines of configs, some leave their system open enough to work with other init systems, and some are so hard-coded to allow only systemd, and fuck those, BTW.

Do you consider Postman (and such) a programming language?

What’s the most basic principle of IT?

Agreed. I was fully aware that forking Linux is more of a joke than anything.

Spot on on the hobby point. If I am writing code while not being paid, I need to enjoy every moment of it. In addition to coding, project managing and ensuring backlash make me nope the fuck out of it.

The talent has nothing to do with Rust AFAIK. Only the GPU driver is written in Rust. There are however efforts put into other drivers written in Rust.

The developers could have written those drivers in C instead, or to hell with those close-minded Linux developers, fork Linux and keep writing in Rust.

Sell it. Put your money earned to buy a general computer to tinker with instead.

If you have the skills you’ve already been tearing it down, soldering some pins, and compiling your modified uboot/EFI firmware and flashing it. The hack above has only like twenty people in the whole world who know how to do.

If it was a TV box and still functioning, there are people out there genuinely have a valid use case for it, to watch TV of course. Don’t ruin it.

I haven’t used Arch in a decade, but as unstable as Arch is, I don’t think Arch doesn’t have dependencies poorly defined like that.

Say, firefox-1 does not depend on libssl-1, but now you upgrade it to firefox-2, you won’t succeed if you successfully downloaded firefox-2, but failed to download libssl-1, because pacman shall fail, while saying the reason being failed to download all of its dependencies.

If you start with a system with both firefox-1 and libssl-1 installed, upgrading firefox-1 to firefox-2 sure would have no problem, because its dependencies are already fulfilled.

If your system is breaking, it’s probably due to some other issue, but it could not be pacman’s.

If you fork, you’re gonna have children. Those children will slowly eat up your memory. It’s time to hang them up. Shut their pipes. Sometimes they refuse to die, like cats. Control Cat won’t work. That’s where you want to kill them 9 times.

Pfft. Ever bought an Xbox One X box for Xbox One X because your Xbox One X doesn’t come in a box?

Dude, they feature a main bug to kill off all those other bugs.

I dug up this link from June, which tells us why they made such a design choice of strong depressing on systemd.

https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Funny thing is every open source developer strives to support as many systems and platforms as possible, by following best practices and open standards, GNOME goes backwards.