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I definitely wanna try AntiX, I like the concept, the philosophy and the community. I think I read something about this (the systemd) but this is a bit out of my knowledge, I realise there is a lot to learn in this new world. To be honest, I don’t really know what is a “scheduling method” and the “style” in a Linux distribution. I’m still very green in Linux
Thanks for the link and the explanations 🙂

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captain-plant wrote:

I definitely wanna try AntiX, I like the concept, the philosophy and the community. I think I read something about this (the systemd) but this is a bit out of my knowledge, I realise there is a lot to learn in this new world. To be honest, I don’t really know what is a “scheduling method” and the “style” in a Linux distribution. I’m still very green in Linux.
Thanks for the link and the explanations 🙂

It’s quite OK not to be familiar with much, if any, details about freely available software, or the technical stuff that is behind all of this.

The fact of the matter is that, regardless of the methods, philosophy, or anything else, the mere fact that we have choices, which incidentally, DO include the right to choose either free stuff, proprietary stuff, or a blend of the two – some people who are just as “crazed” about free software as others are about commercial software – the reality is that it is all about the ability to choose whatever works best.

I love this software, but I also like the freedom of choice. Every so often I need something else, for whatever reason, and it’s there. But I happen to have the choice of having multiple hardware systems, some old, marginally functional, others fairly recent. None of my systems are “high end”, though a couple of them were pretty decent models when they were new – three of them were obtained from my brother in law, who was cleaning out old stuff and would have either dumped them or recycled them; instead I put them to good use testing and using antiX, so that others can benefit, either from the testing or from the experiences shared.

I’ve given away a few of mine too and recycled others in places where I at least HOPE they were “reimaged”, refurbished and given or sold at very low prices, so I do what I can when I can. (I’m retired, so I have a modest, fixed income at this point).

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Could you tell me what is a “scheduling method” and the “style” in a Linux distribution ? (you were talking about it in post #84019)
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Here’s what I found by looking through the Void Linux documentation. It is a more accurate description than the simplistic, but not entirely accurate description I gave earlier. Also, I did a few other searches and I found a simple description.

1) Simple description: runit – a UNIX init scheme with service supervision. Source: http://smarden.org/runit/

2) Void Linux documentation:
“Void uses the runit(8) supervision suite to run system services and daemons.

Some advantages of using runit include:

a small code base, making it easier to audit for bugs and security issues.
each service is given a clean process state, regardless of how the service was started or restarted: it will be started with the same environment, resource limits, open file descriptors, and controlling terminals.
a reliable logging facility for services, where the log service stays up as long as the relevant service is running and possibly writing to the log.”

Regarding “init” scheme: In the classic UNIX operating system, the first process is the initial process, or init.

3) runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems.
Source: http://smarden.org/runit/index.html

I hope this helps. Read through the sites I mentioned and do additional “searches” on your own to “learn more”. That’s how I learn too; I search, read, look, think, observe, and try to remember. When I forget, I look again (and again).

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This is very nice from you to explain me this so well, thank you, I think I understand better now. I will look further into that though. And thanks for the wises advices 🙂

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