I’m looking for the least resource intensive smallest footprint distro I can run. Since I’ll be running a bunch of containers on the server.
The documentation out there is a little thin and I can’t run them in virtualization as the Pi is arm based.
One of my occasional bicycling buddies wrote part of the original vi. He retired as Visiting Professor in Residence at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Like Unix, Vim is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
Isn't that what Puppy Linux is for?
Do you perhaps have any experience with OpenIndiana?
Non at all. There was a magazine cover copy of Solaris a while ago (10-15 years?) but I couldn't get it to install.
For me Unix is a text-based OS, with X sitting on top (sometimes). The window manager / desktop manager is simply window dressing. There are some subtle differences in the directory structure and package management systems, but from my point of view Unix is Unix. I have used Sun Sparc Workstations running Solaris, DECstations running Digital Unix, x86 Linux: Slackware, Redhat, Caldera, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, SCO Unix, Raspian on the Rasberry Pi, and earlier releases of OS X on PowerPC and x86. They are all very similar. I have no particular interest in reviving an old flavor of Unix with a graphical interface designed to run on a CRT monitor.
I still have Apple's first G3 laptop. I tried to cram a Linux distro on it that was supposed to work but I just gave up on the Old World Macs because too much screwing around.
My first New World Mac, the Pismo, I sold to a friend years ago upgraded to a G4. He used it for a print server. It was good enough for that!
Nice thing about Macs, the OS is a crapload more efficient than Windows.
I am not, and never have been a windows fan. Historically, I have had to deal with MS Word files to collaborate with others, so I had to dual-boot or use virtualbox. When OS X first came out it was a perfect solution: Unix plus native MS Office. Apple's desire to monetize everything and transition their desktop to be more iOS like started to drive me away. Now days everyone is using Google docs for collaboration, so I can get away with 100% Linux. Plus Libre Office is great.
I'm running the public beta of macOS 11.0. They've backed off considerably and are letting the desktop be the desktop.
