Re: How Long Since Last Kernel Update

Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote:

While reading that, I came about this article,
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/the_end_of_absolute_linux/

For "smallest, simplest, lightest-weight distros", my pick has been
Tiny Core Linux FWIW.

I recently had one of my photo management program scripts break.
In iOS 18, Apple made some subtle changes is their use of the .HEIC
file format, causing libheif to fail. I had to go out and find
the Fedora Rawhide version of the fixed libheif, and all is good
again. Kudos to .so libraries. But when I build programs to give to
others, it would be much easier if I could link them statically
rather than track down all the dependencies to make sure to help
my "clients" find them before they can use my program.

It works so long as you stick to libraries that support static
linking, or pay for the privilege in the case of Qt. Building a
full-featured Linux distro on just software that statically links
would be really hard though.

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