I've reached the end of Linux.

Posted by Final-Work2788@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 19 comments

Worked my way down over the course of six months from Ubuntu to Musl-Void. Each time I would realize to my dismay that there was an even leaner, faster, more efficient distro than the one I was using and then I would hop. Now I'm at the end. Unless I'm wrong there is no more efficient way to operate a modern computer. Is there anything beyond this? I want to find the molton core.

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mina86ng@reddit

Unless /bin/sh is your init, you haven’t reacahed Tao.

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Jamie_1318@reddit

You're chasing means rather than ends. Do what you need to do on your computer and don't think about 'performance' as much. it's limited by your software more than your OS.

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Final-Work2788@reddit (OP)

It's beyond means and ends at this point. I think my hatred of bloat had lead to full-scale techno-OCD.

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speedyundeadhittite@reddit

What you count as bloat is functionality others need.

Don't think your usecase is the only one.

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Maybe_Factor@reddit

You can just run raw assembly direct on the CPU... After that, for the same "program" to increase in efficiency you need to look at FPGAs and then ASICs.

None of that will give you the "personal computer" experience though... it's more about how much you're willing to sacrifice for more performance.

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chrisoboe@reddit

Musl-Void

Now I'm at the end

You're at the beginning.

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Electrical-Jury5585@reddit

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
let me show you how deep the rabbit hole goes!

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msears101@reddit

There is no fastest Linux. There is no free lunch. Most bloat has a purpose and for some users it has time savings in productivity which might slow your OS down, but may them get more work done.

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3G6A5W338E@reddit

Look into Genode at this point.

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Peetz0r@reddit

Are you at the end of Linux, or st the start of r/osdev?

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sdk-ex@reddit

This mindset is so intriguing 😂 what exactly motivates this behavior? What does a “faster, more efficient distro” even really mean to you? How much does the OS actually play a role in your perceived issue? If you want to be able to process more stuff quicker, and you truly are willing to pay any cost to fufill this wild desire, maybe you ought to invest in one of them ARM based desktops. Then you can build your own OS from scratch while your at it, if it makes you feel better.

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Savings_Register9542@reddit

The source code for cpm86 is available.

You could compile that for your system, write the necessary drivers for your hardware and have a really lightweight system......

cpm used to run off a floppy disk!

(don't do this though, it might be fun but you'll go mad and turn into a worse version of Linus...)

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marc0ne@reddit

Well, now start over by working on optimizing the ones you've already tried.

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nitin_is_me@reddit

Wait there's another level deeper.

Bare metal assembly running out of a BIOS chip you flash manually using Morse code

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