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DistroWatch published a review on JuNest, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.





JuNest

While JuNest refers to itself as a distribution, it's not a Linux distribution in the usual sense. In fact, I'd hesitate to refer to it as a distribution at all. The project does not provide a stand-alone operating system you can install from scratch the way you could Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu. To run JuNest we first need to have a host Linux distribution installed and running. JuNest also doesn't provide its own kernel (ie. it does not distribute Linux), JuNest relies on the host operating system's kernel. In this way, JuNest is more akin to a type of container or virtual environment which is added onto an existing distribution rather than its own Linux-based distribution. It might be better considered a meta-distribution in a similar vein to Bedrock Linux. I decided to try installing JuNest on a copy of openSUSE Leap. This, I figured, would provide me with a stable, openSUSE base while testing JuNest's ability to run cutting-edge software from Arch Linux. Setting up JuNest requires the host system to have bash, GNU Coreutils, and git installed. The first two are usually pre-installed on almost every Linux distribution while git is present in most distributions' repositories.
Junest

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