@aa I was so used to use #alpinelinux for virtual machines for a long while, what changed my mind was this Drew DeVault post:

In praise of Alpine Linux
https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.html

It took me that long mostly because I didn't have any incentive to move myself away from #archlinux, and still don't have one, but I wanted a change anyway. I like rolling releases, but I'm currently more into an stable way, wanted to try #musl and unify everything: desktop and my servers infrastructure.

I accidentally derailed #musl by mentioning dishwashers and they're still talking about them 24 hours later 😅

@alcinnz@floss.social As one data point, my 2012 Macbook may be unacceptably slow with macOS... but #AlpineLinux is super fast there, except for the boot and resume from disk time of course. I guess #Debian would run fine there too, I just wanted something #musl imic for a change.

@alcinnz@floss.social As one data point, my 2012 Macbook may be unacceptably slow with macOS... but #AlpineLinux is super fast there, except for the boot and resume from disk time of course. I guess #Debian would run fine there too, I just wanted something #musl imic for a change.

🎉 systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc - Phoronix

｢ Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option. ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-musl-libc

#systemd #musl #libc #postmarketOS #opensource

🎉 systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc - Phoronix

｢ Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option. ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-musl-libc

#systemd #musl #libc #postmarketOS #opensource

Systemd adds musl compatibility for the first time, reducing the glibc-only barrier and widening its reach across lighter Linux systems.
https://linuxiac.com/systemd-introduces-experimental-musl-support/

#systemd #musl #linux #opensource

Systemd adds musl compatibility for the first time, reducing the glibc-only barrier and widening its reach across lighter Linux systems.
https://linuxiac.com/systemd-introduces-experimental-musl-support/

#systemd #musl #linux #opensource

@jbz

cc: @dalias

All good reasoning. But Portability was not mentioned.

Using a good libC like Musl helps.

#Musl

Just designed and tested an algorithm to build a reverse-iterator on top of an iterator that can only run in forwards direction (part of the #musl collation project) and it seems to be good!

63 underlying forward-iterate steps to perform 21 reverse-iterate steps in simple test case.

Just designed and tested an algorithm to build a reverse-iterator on top of an iterator that can only run in forwards direction (part of the #musl collation project) and it seems to be good!

63 underlying forward-iterate steps to perform 21 reverse-iterate steps in simple test case.

This time around, in addition to funding, we have folks from @postmarketOS on the project to give feedback on integration and actually meeting the needs for localized UI in end-user-facing applications.

A decade ago, #musl was pretty much only used in embedded and container spaces, and occasionally desktops of power users mostly sticking to a non-localized/English-only interface.

A lot has changed since then.

6/N

Basically, #musl's locale support has been pretty abysmal for a long time.

This is in contrast to multilingualization, which has always been first-class. M17N basically means ability to represent data in your own and other languages concurrently, and is about character set and avoiding artificial limitations. Locale/localization, OTOH, means the ability of the software to adjust its behavior and presentation to the norms of a particular cultural context, and that's what we've failed at.

About 10 years ago, I wrote the initial locale implementation, but it never received testing/feedback, and had core data representation bugs that basically made it not usable.

5/N

The big exciting news though is that some work I've been wanting to do on #musl for a long time now has sponsorship, thanks to a grant from NLnet and NGI Zero Core.

This was previously announced on the musl mailing list, but I'd like to go into some more detail here.

4/N

So, time for a thread of #musl news.

(Don't worry, good news!)

🧵 1/N