| brent timothy saner on 21 Oct 2015 21:17:20 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Void Linux tips |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/21/2015 11:45 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > For me, the elephant in the room was systemd, which Arch embraces > enthusiastically, and which Void formerly used as its init before > dumping it for runit. not liking systemd is certainly a right and prerogative someone has, but what you've presented here is largely a preference rather than any sort of objective reasoning. there is a lot of FUD around systemd, however, which i discuss in S0E8[0] of my podcast (starting at 39m20s). i find a lot of it comes from individuals who have never actually used systemd in a production or regular environment (or a *proper* systemd implementation- such as Arch's- and have instead used a half-cocked hybridized implementation such as debian, ubuntu, centos to a lesser degree, etc.) i'd invite you to look a bit deeper into systemd and use it a little bit before criticizing it. > Arch offers only a chroot installation. this is indeed true, but worth mentioning are Antergos[1] (pre-configured Arch install) and Makeiso (previously Evo/Lution)[2], an Arch installer project. Lastly, one can use the monthly tarball bootstraps (found at e.g. [3] and other full Arch mirrors), extract them on the root-level mount of a disk and then chroot in and install a bootloader (and probably run a pacman update as well, as the bootstrap tarballs are released monthly). This tends to be quite a bit faster than the "normal" Arch install method. > If you compare Void with Slackware, Void's package manager deals with dependencies, Slackware's not so much. Slackware's last official stable release was also almost 2 years ago, so this is probably a good alternative. ;) [0] https://sysadministrivia.com/notes/Season_0:Episode_8 [1] https://antergos.com/ [2] http://www.evolutionlinux.com/ [3] http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/archlinux/iso/latest/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWKGM8AAoJEIwATC+TSB9rWccQAK2JASlzzSTd5j11qmka0mwR /aZGTAOhOKA2D56sEMdeROJ5b7yQ1OsK8VqcVPJOps9DSgXToLc0GRu7+v30u6Ci TQKtS9UnCVAIS2SevO/+tIek2+ReNrYUM4jOzZhlF5zX1/Y4VHCM+v1XpqUoHxhx uxdmIkcMgZ6edVwC/fyBM2UFxq539YKpegm67Yx15O7EkGxkIijhD+1H45dVUomE w9ykIc8QDzCH54BO6N+IwluAwYX7CFBoWCbh/kDZIAbTBQ8zvjHSB4ouD/qzPiiG vA9JMN22oFKp87DoGSiyJ1AhshTYk88CL2sTPncDUcXVgke1nceVxziUWqExeWCa 8T9RzhtPRVKKtyeDKLuK41VywIU+t0vDkdm0X/SAulkKt8rxbl4zABrgyZC3xubj CIhv1D3wjMZ/J444LEmJz0y6HAo5cGRzgrMlZmWnDBWm9VcHDd5eILcygIUL8LmI y1JT8n6OCkSqXUjdzB64JbyncjNipmxDiSt5exY+vSq8uUL9vQ7MSJeFv30+q1hH eL8sD+Ot2xV3V64St4V2Pmd589VKKCZdbR9Gg4QnT8IQPNnGYe8e+Lnkjym2/1IP myh6GdlT9otusO/ZgNjY7++jqek4haLEdnM/fM6GPE2HXw38uhxDVa/8DUMDZgvf kGkJWLj1LrgFSQdQBREU =iMRI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug