Comment by mtillman 10 months ago For those looking for a Linux that works like BSD, https://voidlinux.org/. 13 comments mtillman Reply cbsks 10 months ago Also see https://www.gentoo.org/ resonious 10 months ago Or a linux that actually uses the BSD coreutils https://chimera-linux.org/. gigatexal 10 months ago Does it make ZFS on root stupid easy and has ZFS boot environments? kennysoona 10 months ago Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools. gf000 10 months ago The normal, systemd NixOS does actually make it "stupid easy". It will fetch the latest kernel that is compatible with ZFS and has single-line config options for auto-snapshots, and the like. gigatexal 10 months ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies → ssl-3 10 months ago Nope.Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process. nucleogenesis 10 months ago Is the XBPS thing kinda like BSD ports? ssl-3 10 months ago Not really, no. It's just binary package system, ala apt or apk or whatever. Piraty 10 months ago kinda. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/ kennysoona 10 months ago Better yet just use Alpine IMO.
gigatexal 10 months ago Does it make ZFS on root stupid easy and has ZFS boot environments? kennysoona 10 months ago Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools. gf000 10 months ago The normal, systemd NixOS does actually make it "stupid easy". It will fetch the latest kernel that is compatible with ZFS and has single-line config options for auto-snapshots, and the like. gigatexal 10 months ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies → ssl-3 10 months ago Nope.Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process.
kennysoona 10 months ago Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools.
gf000 10 months ago The normal, systemd NixOS does actually make it "stupid easy". It will fetch the latest kernel that is compatible with ZFS and has single-line config options for auto-snapshots, and the like. gigatexal 10 months ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies →
gigatexal 10 months ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies →
ssl-3 10 months ago Nope.Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process.
nucleogenesis 10 months ago Is the XBPS thing kinda like BSD ports? ssl-3 10 months ago Not really, no. It's just binary package system, ala apt or apk or whatever. Piraty 10 months ago kinda. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/
Also see https://www.gentoo.org/
Or a linux that actually uses the BSD coreutils https://chimera-linux.org/.
Does it make ZFS on root stupid easy and has ZFS boot environments?
Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools.
The normal, systemd NixOS does actually make it "stupid easy". It will fetch the latest kernel that is compatible with ZFS and has single-line config options for auto-snapshots, and the like.
Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments?
2 replies →
Nope.
Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process.
Is the XBPS thing kinda like BSD ports?
Not really, no. It's just binary package system, ala apt or apk or whatever.
kinda. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/
Better yet just use Alpine IMO.