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Hopefully it does not become a thing like how cryptocurrencies are + everyone wants their own coin. There are already enough distributions of Linux. What does t

Hopefully it does not become a thing like how cryptocurrencies are + everyone wants their own coin. There are already enough distributions of Linux. What does this bring that KDE neon, Kubuntu, or even plain old Ubuntu ´KDE desktop not do already? To be honest, I appreciate attempts like VoidLinux that tries something genuine and brings enough difference to warrant its existence and support, but this really feels like some consumer wanting their own named distribution of what already exists.

danieldk 8y ago
For someone who does not know Void Linux, what does it bring that is genuinely new? From the webpage's description, it looks like Arch with a different init system. To me e.g. Fedora's Team Silverblue and NixOS seem genuinely different, since they completely rethink how installations and upgrades are done.
- reacharavindh 8y ago
  From what little I have played with Void Linux so far, * Void Linux is minimal by default, and comes without Systemd * It can be had with Musl instead of Glibc as a lighter weight alternative * Option of binary packages or source pages that you can compile yourself with -native * LibreSSL by default. Not saying that all of the above are how all Linux distributions should be, but the lack of Systemd already hooked me in to try it out.
  - brobdingnagians 8y ago
    IIRC it is by some BSD-style people who took some of the design ideas from BSD. LibreSSL is a huge plus for me in terms of security, and the more I learn about systemd the happier I am to get away from it. Didn't know about Musl, but that's nice too [ http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html ]
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monsieurbanana 8y ago
> Hopefully it does not become a thing like how cryptocurrencies are + everyone wants their own coin This genuinely made me smile :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di... Everyone and their dog have been rolling their own distros long before cryptocurrencies were a thing.
- pvorb 8y ago
  I regularly check out this graph on Wikipedia and wonder how thoroughly Wikipedians track the Linux distro ecosystem.
  - JdeBP 8y ago
    It appears to be someone by the name of Fabio Loli, not Wikipedia people. * https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline
itomato 8y ago
Did you miss the last twenty years of Distrowatch?
grawprog 8y ago
>What does this bring that KDE neon, Kubuntu, or even plain old Ubuntu ´KDE desktop not do already? Not much from what i can see other than their 'Nomad Desktop' which just seems to be some custom desktop applets for KDE. I use KDE Neon myself, this doesn't look all that appealing to me personally.

danieldk 8y ago

For someone who does not know Void Linux, what does it bring that is genuinely new? From the webpage's description, it looks like Arch with a different init system. To me e.g. Fedora's Team Silverblue and NixOS seem genuinely different, since they completely rethink how installations and upgrades are done.

reacharavindh 8y ago
From what little I have played with Void Linux so far, * Void Linux is minimal by default, and comes without Systemd * It can be had with Musl instead of Glibc as a lighter weight alternative * Option of binary packages or source pages that you can compile yourself with -native * LibreSSL by default. Not saying that all of the above are how all Linux distributions should be, but the lack of Systemd already hooked me in to try it out.
- brobdingnagians 8y ago
  IIRC it is by some BSD-style people who took some of the design ideas from BSD. LibreSSL is a huge plus for me in terms of security, and the more I learn about systemd the happier I am to get away from it. Didn't know about Musl, but that's nice too [ http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html ]
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monsieurbanana 8y ago

> Hopefully it does not become a thing like how cryptocurrencies are + everyone wants their own coin This genuinely made me smile :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di... Everyone and their dog have been rolling their own distros long before cryptocurrencies were a thing.

pvorb 8y ago
I regularly check out this graph on Wikipedia and wonder how thoroughly Wikipedians track the Linux distro ecosystem.
- JdeBP 8y ago
  It appears to be someone by the name of Fabio Loli, not Wikipedia people. * https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline

itomato 8y ago

Did you miss the last twenty years of Distrowatch?

grawprog 8y ago

>What does this bring that KDE neon, Kubuntu, or even plain old Ubuntu ´KDE desktop not do already? Not much from what i can see other than their 'Nomad Desktop' which just seems to be some custom desktop applets for KDE. I use KDE Neon myself, this doesn't look all that appealing to me personally.