Comment by mtillman 1 year ago For those looking for a Linux that works like BSD, https://voidlinux.org/. 13 comments mtillman Reply cbsks 1 year ago Also see https://www.gentoo.org/ resonious 1 year ago Or a linux that actually uses the BSD coreutils https://chimera-linux.org/. gigatexal 1 year ago Does it make ZFS on root stupid easy and has ZFS boot environments? kennysoona 1 year ago Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools. gf000 1 year 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 1 year ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies → ssl-3 1 year ago Nope.Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process. nucleogenesis 1 year ago Is the XBPS thing kinda like BSD ports? ssl-3 1 year ago Not really, no. It's just binary package system, ala apt or apk or whatever. Piraty 1 year ago kinda. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/ kennysoona 1 year ago Better yet just use Alpine IMO.
gigatexal 1 year ago Does it make ZFS on root stupid easy and has ZFS boot environments? kennysoona 1 year ago Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools. gf000 1 year 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 1 year ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies → ssl-3 1 year ago Nope.Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process.
kennysoona 1 year ago Alpine does. Just boot from the extended ISO and modprobe zfs and install zfs tools.
gf000 1 year 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 1 year ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies →
gigatexal 1 year ago Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments? 2 replies →
ssl-3 1 year ago Nope.Void generally plays well with ZFS, including kernel updates, but installing on ZFS root is very much a DIY process.
nucleogenesis 1 year ago Is the XBPS thing kinda like BSD ports? ssl-3 1 year ago Not really, no. It's just binary package system, ala apt or apk or whatever. Piraty 1 year 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.