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Void Linux - the Strangely Overlooked Distribution

Posted by eldersnake on · 4 comments
The Linux Rain; By Andrew Powell
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Ahh, Void Linux. You may or may not have heard of it. If you have, more than likely it was by word of mouth, so to speak, from internet comments on a forum, YouTube video or in passing on Reddit. But this little distro rarely gets any press or recognition otherwise. Perhaps it's time that changes, as Void Linux is an interesting distro in its own right and a good alternative to something like Arch Linux. It also has a no-systemd approach.

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{
printf("wget https://repo.voidlinux.eu/live/current/ ");

return 0; }


I like the name... and the idea. I'll have to try it.
Story reposted to gab.ai for anyone there who might be interested.
@dotmatrix

IIRC, "int main(void)" is the start of a C program where no variables are passed into or out of this overall function (am admittedly very rusty on my C language). In any case, it's nice that void LINUX is another systemd-free distro like devuan -- albeit as it seems to me as MUCH more expert in terms of a steep learning curve than the latter!

My 2c
>IIRC, "int main(void)" is the start of a C program where no variables are passed

Correct... it would be nice if that's the distro's reference, but I have no info on that.

As I've written to a few friends:

"Teach your children to love others, to give generously, and to program in ANSI C... and the world will be a better place."

Next week... I swear... next week, I'll test it out.

BTW: I finally got my Pocket Chip thing. I've been playing with it for a few days. Hopefully I'll make good on my promise for a review of it posted here in about a week or two.

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