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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Using dash or ksh as default shell (lemmy.world)

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Recently I got really interested in debloating and hardening my operating systems, cause I'm heavily inspired by Unix and "worse is better" philosophy. As I heard bash is heavy and we have much more lightweight and faster alternatives like these mentioned in title. They must be great alternative for scripting and interpreting but is there any reason to use them on my machines as interactive shell? Anyone are using them? Also is it worth to learn them as bash is standard IT industry?

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[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

It's been a learning experience. I am pretty much building it specifically for my use so it's missing lots of stuff that's standard on other fully featured OS's. I'm mostly using a browser, Konsole terminal and KDE Kate as my editor.

I found an unexpected hobby in writing POSIX scripts because it's teaching me the inner workings of Linux. In the future I'd like to expand that to including the sed and awk commands but I haven't really found a project to use them with yet.

Alpine Linux does offer a setup-desktop command/script which will easily setup a few desktop environments such as Gnome, Plasma, Xfce, Mate, Sway and Lxqt. That only sets up the basic desktop environment so a lot of other work is needed to set up things like sound, graphics and a few other things.

As I mentioned before, I still have Linux Mint DE installed. I mostly use it for Steam games but it has everything else I need for when I don't feel like working out a problem because I wanted to simply open a .pdf file. However, it's still really satisfying for me setting up a very specific work environment with the mininal tools I have available.

I think there is value in learning to work within a mininal environment to help give more life out of lower spec technology that's currently available. Especially now with all the ram supply issues because of the AI rush.