What sets Void apart?
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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- Uses runit instead of systemd
- Uses LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL
- Optionally uses musl libc instead of glibc
- Uses the XBPS package manager
- Void is similar to BSD, in many respects
- It's very minimal, and that makes it flexible
- It's very lightweight. Until I installed a WM and started a bunch of daemons, my RAM usage was not only in the megabytes, but also only double digits.
- It has XBPS-SRC, which is comparable to Portage and FreeBSD Ports.
- Most of the documentation is on Reddit and in blog posts, as Void Docs is quite basic and the wiki is no-longer updated. Some may consider this a good thing, others will disagree.
Void hasn't used libressl in years