[Toybox] Which distro?

[Rob Landley]

On 9/17/25 12:08, zyxhere💭 wrote:
> Hi Rob what distro do you use, your youtube videos seem to suggest a
> glibc one tho you look more like an alpine guy.

On my laptop?

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="5"
VERSION="5 (daedalus)"
VERSION_CODENAME="daedalus"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"

It's basically "debian without systemd". I mention it a lot in my blog, 
especially last year (https://landley.net/notes-2024.html) when I 
upgraded from B to D. (Which in Debian terms was reinstalling from 
Buster to Bookworm.)

I've got various other distros in VMs I run under kvm: currently 
Freebsd-14.2, alpine 3.19.1, archlinux-2021, linuxmint-21.2-xfce, fedora 
36, and xubuntu 22.04. Plus redhat 9 and redhat 6 from the dawn of time 
(and knoppix 3.6 and 6.7) in case I want to ask historical questions, 
and some non-x86 debian and buildroot images to run under qemu in case I 
want to see how other systems handle something on an architecture (but 
that's WAY slower than kvm).

Plus I ssh to various other systems. (This laptop is slow and ancient, 
sometimes I borrow a newer 32-way SMP machine to rebuild all the 
toolchains and mkroot targets WITHOUT leaving it all running overnight...)

Rob