elias writes:
"A very public and sometimes acrimonious dispute in the Debian ecosystem about upstart versus systemd has been settled in favour of systemd. Some go as far as to brand it a new era after the Linux civil war [Beware popups].
We also had an asksoylentnews question on what the fuzz was all about. But what can upstart contribute to systemd now the war is over, or will it simply be a technology that we remember fondly, but do not see any more in a few years time?"
(Score: 1) by epitaxial on Wednesday March 19 2014, @05:46PM
NetBSD should fit your requirements for a hobbyist OS nicely. Small install footprint and you only add the things you need from the ports tree. I had it running for close to a decade on an old Alpha box.