After so many short posts (after hours of work on the cars), one might wonder where all of my nerd posts have gone- they’re still here, and some I’ve been holding off until I have adequate time to compose an actual article, rather than a drive-by paragraph.

Void Linux, while it may deserve a better writeup, is far too good to keep bottled in.

It’s a very simple distribution based around XBPS, a rolling release, meaning that as soon as it’s up on github, it’s ready for you to add to your own build.

It does many things different than other distirbutions- for one, and the reason I decided to give it a try- NO SYSTEMD. It uses runit, which is a very simple init system which is design compatible with djb’s daemontools. Anything you want to run- you explicitly tell it so.

It’s light weight, multiplatform, and other than a little annoying to work with closed source/binary blobs, amazingly versatile. It runs loops around other distributions- my Core2Duo has booted and loaded Chrome before a basic i3 Windows 7 machine several years NEWER has even managed to get to the desktop (and over twice as fast as Mint, with half the RAM use for a similar configuration).