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?
I had contact with Alpine on one server. It’s great OS but I don’t think it’s great choice not for desktop. I’m using Gentoo and it gives me much more capabilities ;) Gentoo can’t work with busybox as GNU coreutils are hard dependency. musl is supported by Gentoo but as I heard there’s a lot of issues with it
I guess it’s just that musl and busybox are not fit for desktop use cases
yeah, they’re better for embedded devices