====== Laconian Gnu Linux ======

LGL is a Linux distribution based on [[https://linuxfromscratch.org/|Linux From Scratch (LFS)]] and [[https://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/|Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS)]].

As the books are very-well maintained and continously updated, they provide a very good platform for a reasonably stable and modern distribution.

As known from the classical Linux Distributions [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat|Red Hat]] and [[https://www.debian.org/|Debian]], the installation and maintenance of individual software components (packages) are handled by a dependency-aware package manager, called [[:lpm:00-main|Laconian Package Manager (LPM)]].

LGL focuses on:

  * General-purpose desktop computers/laptops
  * File-, Web, Mail and Database servers
  * Network routers, firewalls and VPN gateways

For most parts, LGL follows established standards for Linux distributions. The main differences to the most well-known distros currently:

  * installs any packages only relevant to desktop computers under /opt/X11
  * installs some larger applications (Apache Web Server, Samba File Server, Firefox, PostgreSQL and others) under /opt
  * uses SysV-style init and rsyslog logging [[https://nosystemd.org/|instead of systemd]]
  * uses [[https://www.xfce.org/|Xfce4]] as desktop environment
  * uses alsa instead of pulseaudio for sound
  * uses no initrd for regular setups with a sata-based root filesystem (initrd is supported for other purposes)

While above mentioned points are strict design decisions, the following limitations might/will change in future releases.

  * does currently only support X11 and no wayland on the desktop
  * does currently not support efi boot
  * uses currrently traditional crontab (Vixie Cron 4.1) and at for job scheduling

The current release of LGL is [[:lgl:20-lgl27|LGL-2.7]]