Chair, 🐆🐆 Eating People's Faces PartyAlgoCompSynth@mastodon.social
Oct 14, 2026, 4:13 AMRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117436969293772611
@mcc ICYMII ... although Redox looks cooler to me because cross-developmemt.
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Oct 14, 2026, 4:14 AM@AlgoCompSynth redox is the one I focus on because I believe I can contribute to it. It's possible netbsd is better for multiple reasons.
- Chair, 🐆🐆 Eating People's Faces PartyAlgoCompSynth@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:16 AM
@mcc I'm more or less an honourary QA tester for Bluefin Linux these days. Redox does look cool but on full-strength machines I've got way too much muscle memory in this whole Linux immutable / container-based workflow. But on embedded things I'm looking for squeezing the gigaflops out of a Zero 2 W and a microkernel OS makes more sense than anything besides a real-time OS.
- Chair, 🐆🐆 Eating People's Faces PartyAlgoCompSynth@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:27 AM
@mcc On the Zero 2 W I've got Alpine down to 61.6 MiB used out of 512, and that includes the audio and mDNS and NetworkManager services. Raspberry Pi OS is 152 MiB and that's *without* the audio services!
If I can get smaller with Redox I'm going with it. It looks a lot easier to cross-build than Yocto and none of the RT operating systems support the Zero 2 W.