Hello, I am looking for a well-supported Linux / BSD distribution with focus on following features (in no particular order) -
- Systemd free (found some here)
- Security focused (meaning hardened, not security tools)
- Wayland (preferably without anything X11)
- Lightweight (as much as possible)
- Supports flatpak, containers and VMs (preferably libvirt)
- Atomic (more optional then other requirements)
This is expected to be run on real hardware on desktop (so alpine will not work).
Along with that, what are some good lightweight (but well-known / actively maintained) desktop environments for Wayland?
- I see some here but am looking for opinions or if some are missing.
- Especially ones that support stacking.
The most interesting ones I could find -
- Void Linux (has some X11 stuff, not security focused, will try installing Wayland)
- Kicksecure, OpenBSD, HardenedBSD (yet to explore more for these)
- MXLinux and Artix (seem very niche)?
I am looking for more recommendations/opinions for similar requirements, especially if there are better known ones.
Thank you for reply.
Yes, I would be ok with A as well, but I am learning things slowly to get to that point. So B for now would be great.
But it seems like OpenBSD might not be great for running VMs - https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/openbsd/comments/11ev3l4/is/_it/_a/_bad/_idea/_to/_use/_openbsd/_as/_a/_vm/_host/
Could not find much info for virtualization support on HardenedBSD though.
Not sure how well bhyve work there, but it seems like VMs might not work well or be performant enough on either of them.
I would try with Alpine, Artix or Void for now.