>List of minimal OSes and distros >Obscure minimal Plan 9, FreeDOS, Minix3, Genode >Meme minimal Alpine, Crux, Void, GuixSD, BSD, SourceMage, Any non-systemd Distro >Autistic minimal Arch, Gentoo, OpenBSD, LFS >Most sane minimal Debian (netinst)
>Minimal base Programs >WM (window manager) dwm >Web browsers Dillo, Surf, Links, w3m >File Manager Terminal >Video/Music player mpv or cmus >Text editors GNU nano or Vim >Image viewer FEH or sxiv >Shells mksh or dash >Terminal st
Speaking of minimal, I recently wanted to fix my fonts but the minimal way and suspect I can do font rendering without fontconfig at all. Will post results later.
Adam Collins
Did you guys see that picture with the Void using only 41MiB of RAM?
Adrian Roberts
reminder that you are not minimal if your /usr is over 2528854016 bytes
Has anyone managed to install Void Linux on a X240?
Oliver Ortiz
>implying that Emacs isn't minimal >implying that i3wm isn't minimal
This post is autistic
Luis Turner
If you disagree, do you mind explaining why?
Angel Ramirez
Simple systems=bloat
Caleb Ramirez
systemd is the antithesis of minimalism. it does far more than just initing the system. feature creep is an understatement. even the resources linked in the op say so. sure, you can remove systemd from debian, but its a bitch and many packages depend on it. void or some other binary based nonsystemd distro should be the "most sane minimal."
Samuel Bailey
Emacs is super bloated, it's like another entire operating system.
Jackson Ortiz
>many packages depend on it Pretty sure Gentoo doesn't have this problem.
Brayden Cook
i love gentoo, but i wouldnt call it the most practical/sane minimalist distro. i would definitely recommend it for anyone with patience.
Alexander Martin
Merry merry
Tyler Perry
You recommended Linux in a software minimalism thread. This is how we all know you software minimalists are full of shit. Linux is the most bloated feature creep kernel ever created and you still recommend it in these threads. Linux literally adds features started by systemd such as udev and cgroups to the kernelspace. You software minimalists would stick with hobbyist kernels if you really cared about minimalism. You are frauds. Delete this thread.
Wyatt Cox
Fuck Source Mage! Lunar Linux is the was to go, stupid fantasy nerds!
Carson Hughes
Fuck every os listed here, they're not minimal (maybe except for plan9). One of the smallest usable operating systems is Inferno - vitanuova.com . It uses a virtual machine with bytecode to be extremely portable, it runs on bare metal AND host operating systems. But do not worry, the whole vm and the limbo (the language it uses) compiler is smaller than the fucking java garbage collector (inferno is garbage collected too). It runs in Windows, Linux, MacOS, *BSD and bare metal. Give it a try!
Lucas Long
I appreciate minimalism, but it should at least be practical. There's a difference between running a browser without addons and having a riced out distro with terrible UX.