Wow, VMware wasn’t kidding about Photon being a small, clean Linux distro, although it would have been nice if they’d also left out colorized ls output. Shame about systemd, but tdnf looks like a nice cleanup of yum, even if my brain reads the name as to-die-in-fire.

I barely even remember the ads for this, but I was in college at the time, and wouldn’t have spent my money on 15 pounds of laser-tag gear anyway. I did like the Peter David novelizations, though, which were better than you had any right to expect.

Update

Nearly one-eighth of the packages in the Photon repo are Perl modules. That sounds about right. No, wait that was the Alpine Linux window that I had open at the same time; Photon’s package list is only about 2.5% Perl. Which is actually better, since mixing packaged modules with CPAN downloads has always been a mess, and you can never get everything you need from just the packaged stuff. You should avoid the vendor-supplied scripting languages anyway, and use perlbrew/rbenv/pyenv/etc to build clean ones.

Also, to my surprise, I found four of the six “David Peters” Photon novels on my shelves without much effort. They’re apparently rare as hen’s teeth now, with dealers listing them for ridiculous prices that make hundred-page books on Japanese pickles look affordable.

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