ooh, there are a couple of statically linked Linux distributions? how do they cope with, say, Firefox?

"oasis uses smaller and simpler implementations of libraries and tools whenever possible:
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netsurf instead of chromium or firefox...

ah. they don't. that's... pretty much as i expected, tbh

@millihertz what is even the benefit of having everything statically linked

@lily zero link-at-load time; no dependency hell; increased security because of that (nobody can switch in a broken or malicious shared library under your software); potentially lower memory usage; more portable executables... i'm sure there are more, but that's just off the top of my head

@millihertz @lily
> nobody can switch in a broken or malicious shared library under your software
True, but neither can you and if a vulnerability gets discovered in one of the libraries, you'd have to rebuild everything that depends on it — or at least re-link if you keep the object files which no one does, but which would make sense in case with such a distro.