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but can linux be it?
Stripping all the unnecessery things from kernel + activate all the cpu attacks mitigations, IOMMU, all the kernel space protection and isolation, and even a MAC solution (but a bit anti-unix the idea of isolate programs, IDK if i like MAC).
Minimal grub instance, openrc to boot and manage deamons and even mangane wifi interfaces and connections (still need wpa supplicant and dhcpcd).
Musl libc, hardened toolchain stack-protection gcc based, wayland wlroots based minimal compositor (dwm clone), pure ALSA for audio.
From here all unix-like terminal based and, in the end, the big boi sir browser to actually do real things.
All the package (with the exception of the browser) are compiled on the machine fine-tuned to be minimal and strip out all the functions and abi/extension that I dont need (compiling mesa driver only for my machine, no code for other gpu for example....).
~100 mb on startup, fully functional without compromises, even a wallpaper, I can work with a python venv, go toolchain fully functional to test lnd and so on...
The problem with bsd is that, even if the base install is minimal, clean, sane and fully functional, I then need to take all the linux-userspace-packages to complete the os, and I end to need bash, gnupg and so on...
Here end my research, I dont know what I proved.
Stripping all the unnecessery things from kernel + activate all the cpu attacks mitigations, IOMMU, all the kernel space protection and isolation, and even a MAC solution (but a bit anti-unix the idea of isolate programs, IDK if i like MAC).
Minimal grub instance, openrc to boot and manage deamons and even mangane wifi interfaces and connections (still need wpa supplicant and dhcpcd).
Musl libc, hardened toolchain stack-protection gcc based, wayland wlroots based minimal compositor (dwm clone), pure ALSA for audio.
From here all unix-like terminal based and, in the end, the big boi sir browser to actually do real things.
All the package (with the exception of the browser) are compiled on the machine fine-tuned to be minimal and strip out all the functions and abi/extension that I dont need (compiling mesa driver only for my machine, no code for other gpu for example....).
~100 mb on startup, fully functional without compromises, even a wallpaper, I can work with a python venv, go toolchain fully functional to test lnd and so on...
The problem with bsd is that, even if the base install is minimal, clean, sane and fully functional, I then need to take all the linux-userspace-packages to complete the os, and I end to need bash, gnupg and so on...
Here end my research, I dont know what I proved.