Void Linux: Into the Void
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Void Linux: Into the Void
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Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#2A new(ish) from-scratch Linux distro designed by an old NetBSD dev.
Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#3A new(ish) from-scratch Linux distro designed by an old NetBSD dev.
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Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#4A while ago I started looking for alternative linux distributions and void linux is my new darling that came out of this search.
It has many binary packages, out of the box musl images, images for many of my arm boards (raspberry pi *, c2 and cubieboard for instance) and a nice packagemanager with source support and arch like syntax (it's splitted like the debian apt-get/apt-cache but worse... I still like it)
If someone knows where I can report bugs for the live system I would appreciate a link (or I have to do it over the forum/mailing list).
It uses runit as init system and I nearly forgot how nice a system without systemd could be.
I have a little project on the backburner where I started porting arch to musl, but since I found voidlinux I completly stopped.
It has an arch package to install void in a chroot and it has void packages for an arch like init system (mkinitcpio). The packages are updated regulary and even thought it's a larger distribution than alpine linux (it doesn't start with a barebone busbox base, but without wget and curl :D),but has a way larger precompiled package list than it (it even has some precompiled packages missing from other distributions like toybox the bsd licensed busybox like tool)
Anyway since it still offers 32bit x86 binaries I will maybe use it in time for my old hardware. Up until now void Linux has made me very happy and I wonder why I didn't see it 10 years ago when it's first release was born. If you haven't yet give it a try.
Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#5I usually refrain from distro- (and editor-, and language-) related discussions but I think Void Linux deserves an exception here:
- Everything is remarkably simple, (mostly) well-documented and straightforward.
- Friendly, dedicated and very knowledgeable community
- Open development, very few hooks to jump through if you have something to contribute
- No systemd, so: rebooting your system isn't a lottery where, if you lose, you get to wait for 90 seconds for some service to stop, your system doesn't start doing strange new things after every update because something that's been working fine since the 1980s has recently been declared broken, no binary logs to get corrupted (and no need to tweak your system and sidestep this brilliant scheme). Of course, you can't do much DevOps on Void Linux, but I'm pretty sure that's about as relevant as the fact that you can't run macOS on low-power embedded systems.
- Completely community-ran and independent. Some things don't happen as quickly as in corporate-backed projects, but you're also not beta testing for their LTS or enterprise-grade releases, either. Also, no bureaucracy, no priority mismatch, no one to shove alpha-quality software down your throat.
It's basically like OpenBSD with more drivers but based on slightly worse and less cohesive technology :-).
Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#6I usually refrain from distro- (and editor-, and language-) related discussions but I think Void Linux deserves an exception here: - Everything is remarkably simple, (mostly) well-documented and straightforward. - Friendly, dedicated and very knowledgeable community - Open development, very few hooks to jump through if you have something to contribute - No systemd, so: rebooting your system isn't a lottery where, if…
Thanks for beating me to saying all of that. It's been my experience, too.
Void Linux has made me say a good "wow" more than any other Linux.
I love that I can use many of my favorite bits of OpenBSD, even doas.
xbps takes just a minute to learn, and is surprisingly ("wow") fast and robust.
Who knows why it's not more popular, but it doesn't matter. It's awesome.
Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#7A while ago I started looking for alternative linux distributions and void linux is my new darling that came out of this search. It has many binary packages, out of the box musl images, images for many of my arm boards (raspberry pi *, c2 and cubieboard for instance) and a nice packagemanager with source support and arch like syntax (it's splitted like the debian apt-get/apt-cache but worse... I still like it) If som…
I also used to use void-linux for many of these reasons(after arch for a few years). But i have now moved to nixos. It offers me the benefits of replicating system setup(i don't backup my system folders anymore, just my homedir and the nixos configuration files), cleanly removing system-wide packages(no more stale config hanging around) and of course the benefits of using nix for isolated/reproducible builds.
Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#8A while ago I started looking for alternative linux distributions and void linux is my new darling that came out of this search. It has many binary packages, out of the box musl images, images for many of my arm boards (raspberry pi *, c2 and cubieboard for instance) and a nice packagemanager with source support and arch like syntax (it's splitted like the debian apt-get/apt-cache but worse... I still like it) If som…
Bug reports are mostly handled on GitHub.
For the live system probably here: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-mklive/issues And issues related to packages https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues
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#9Nice, my past distros of choice were slackware & archlinux. This feels like a successor to those. I'm sold.
Re: Void Linux: Into the Void
#10I usually refrain from distro- (and editor-, and language-) related discussions but I think Void Linux deserves an exception here: - Everything is remarkably simple, (mostly) well-documented and straightforward. - Friendly, dedicated and very knowledgeable community - Open development, very few hooks to jump through if you have something to contribute - No systemd, so: rebooting your system isn't a lottery where, if…
No systemd, so [...] you can't do much DevOps on Void Linux
How so? How is DevOps linked or dependent on systemd in your view? Personally, I find systemd gets in the way of devops.