Custom distribution of Linux

[whymarrh]

I think there may be use in switching from Raspbian to a custom distribution of Linux.

What I can think of off the top my head that I'd like to see in a hypothetical distro:

• A simpler init system (I do like systemd's unit file format, but the whole of systemd seems to extravagant for a system that will be running but a few processes)
• A simpler, centralized, logging format (is this even needed if the control software logs to SQLite?)
• Two partitions by default, one read-only and the other read-write (where the prior would be for system files and the latter would be for logs)

[whymarrh]

This may very well end up being modifications to Debian+Raspbian, but it's worth exploring options

[arandell93]

What is the time commitment for this task?
As you mention in #27 you have a work-around. For the purposes of proceeding with boat things it's probably best to wait until we are really pushing up against the edges of what we can do before investing time in a custom distro.

[whymarrh]

#27 is a workaround for #25 and this (or similar) would be an actual solution. This isn't something I'm actively working on so I can't comment on how long it would take (as there are multiple different ways of producing a custom distro).