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Void is a small project, but absolutely rock solid. It's BSD inspired and systemd free. I like it a lot.

by KitDuncan 6y ago

_emacsomancer_ 6y ago
I can also vouch for Void - I've used it on my primary laptop for about 4 years. It's a solid distro, with a great community. Void is very configurable, and it's easy to contribute to the project. It's also unlike a number of 'systemd free' distros (many of which are essentially "Distro X, except without systemd") because its non-use of systemd is not out of some hate for systemd, but because the developers decided after using systemd (Void adopted systemd for a time really early on) that it conflicted with other goals of the project (like offering a musl libc flavour alongside a glibc flavour).
Jonnax 6y ago
Here's the thing. I would run: Ubuntu, Debian, Centos or Red Hat on my laptop, desktop and also on any server that I run. I wouldn't run any small distro in AWS.
- freedomben 6y ago
  Have to agree here. I get a lot of benefits professionally from running Linux personally. I've been a full time desktop linux user over 10 years, and I'm often considered the "linux wizard" because I'm known for SSHing into servers and fixing obscure errors that others have looked at for hours with no success. My secret, is that I've run into most of the common problems (filesystem permission issues, including ACLs, selinux, low memory/OOM, conflicting dependency versions, etc) before and already mostly know how to fix them. The time I did on Arch was particularly helpful here. It was a hard first week or so but I learned more about linux during that two weeks than any other time. Anyway the reasons I say that: These days I only run distros locally that I would run in production. I get intimately familiar with the intricacies of the distro that way and managing the servers comes natural to me because of that.

9 ms·

Void is a small project, but absolutely rock solid. It's BSD inspired and systemd free. I like it a lot.

by KitDuncan 6y ago

Void is a small project, but absolutely rock solid. It's BSD inspired and systemd free. I like it a lot.

_emacsomancer_ 6y ago
I can also vouch for Void - I've used it on my primary laptop for about 4 years. It's a solid distro, with a great community. Void is very configurable, and it's easy to contribute to the project. It's also unlike a number of 'systemd free' distros (many of which are essentially "Distro X, except without systemd") because its non-use of systemd is not out of some hate for systemd, but because the developers decided after using systemd (Void adopted systemd for a time really early on) that it conflicted with other goals of the project (like offering a musl libc flavour alongside a glibc flavour).
Jonnax 6y ago
Here's the thing. I would run: Ubuntu, Debian, Centos or Red Hat on my laptop, desktop and also on any server that I run. I wouldn't run any small distro in AWS.
- freedomben 6y ago
  Have to agree here. I get a lot of benefits professionally from running Linux personally. I've been a full time desktop linux user over 10 years, and I'm often considered the "linux wizard" because I'm known for SSHing into servers and fixing obscure errors that others have looked at for hours with no success. My secret, is that I've run into most of the common problems (filesystem permission issues, including ACLs, selinux, low memory/OOM, conflicting dependency versions, etc) before and already mostly know how to fix them. The time I did on Arch was particularly helpful here. It was a hard first week or so but I learned more about linux during that two weeks than any other time. Anyway the reasons I say that: These days I only run distros locally that I would run in production. I get intimately familiar with the intricacies of the distro that way and managing the servers comes natural to me because of that.