Stali: A new static Linux distribution

( Also discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8819085 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261559 ) Interesting points: * http://sta.li/filesystem -- Everything not obviously covered by a fairly simplified hierarchy is put into /sucks , without fixing the problem of /etc still being a grab-bag miscellany. * http://sta.li/filesystem -- /dev being for devices is a "Linux assumption". * http://sta.li/filesystem -- There is no /usr/local . * http://sta.li/filesystem -- /.git goes…

I wish Linux would replace dynamic libraries (especially ones referencing specific paths) with a system based on the library's hash. Then we could have a single lib folder with 1 copy of each library, and get ourselves out of dependency hell by just making dynamic loading act like static loading. We could even download libraries from the web on the fly, if needed. Heck it would even remove a lot of the need to compile every_single_time because apps could reference…

Much of open source software source code sucks in linux. Things could have been leaner, smaller and written with cleaner source code. I haven't checked thoroughly but I am pretty sure I can find lots of places where code could be factored out or made smaller. This goes for glibc too, and no surprise certain statically linked binaries turn out to be simpler.

Unfortunately, Sta.li looks like nothing's happened to it since 2010. That's too bad: something like Sta.li could shake up the convergence on the bland and bloated that most "mainstream" Linux distros seem to encounter. Also, we'd get to experience if dynamic or static linking feels faster.