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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • voidlinux: gave me much better battery life - I assume because it starts as a minimal system and one adds only the essentials to do the job - compared to the soup-to-nuts distros that pile everything in so that newbies are acccomodated. Of course, the voidlinux approach needs more linux skills - but it’s not that hard and the doco is great.

    Also, I love the back to basics runit init system and runsv service runner (I’m old so I like that stuff) and the ultra fast xbps packaging system.















  • I find the various linters and checkers a bit too intrusive while I’m trying to code - I prefer to just have a check when I stop fiddling with the code and save it. So I have these checks run in after-save-hook - if there are errors, I get a popup otherwise nothing and all is good:

    ;; ** syntax checking on file save:
    (defun bh/check-syntax ()
      "Check syntax for various languages."
      (when (eq major-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode)
        (ignore-errors (kill-buffer byte-compile-log-buffer))
        (let ((byte-compile-warnings '(not free-vars obsolete unresolved)))
          (unless (byte-compile-file buffer-file-name)
            (pop-to-buffer byte-compile-log-buffer))))
      (when (eq major-mode 'sh-mode)
        (compile (format "bash -n %s && shellcheck -f gcc %s" buffer-file-name buffer-file-name) t))
      (when (eq major-mode 'ruby-mode)
        (compile (format "ruby -c %s" buffer-file-name) t))
      (when (eq major-mode 'python-mode)
        (compile (format "python -B -m py_compile %s" buffer-file-name) t))
      (when (eq major-mode 'awk-mode)
        (compile (format "AWKPATH=$PATH gawk --lint --source 'BEGIN { exit(0) } END { exit(0) }' --file %s" buffer-file-name) t)))
    

    (add-hook 'after-save-hook #'bh/check-syntax)

    I don’t work much with json files but I daresay the idea could be extended to them. Sorry about the crappy elisp.




  • You can’t avoid IBM/RedHat - they contribute to the kernel and many, many other parts of Linux eg systemd. I have no idea what you mean by DIY distros, what a peculiar adjective in this context. Linux itself is DIY. Life is DIY.

    That said, voidlinux is an independent distro without systemd or snaps based on runit for init and xbps for package management. It’s also a STABLE rolling release.