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Void Linux Drops Systemd & Switches To LibreSSL
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: Void Linux Drops Systemd & Switches To LibreSSL
Back in June of 2013 we covered Void Linux as a new rolling-release Linux distribution built from scratch but since then we haven't come across much Void Linux news until a few days ago when a Phoronix reader wrote in about the latest progress with this interesting Linux distribution...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4NDM
Perhaps I'll setup a test server and try out a firewall setup using this distro. Could be an interesting experiment.
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Despite being a happy systemd user, I approve of this. Yes, it's yet another distro with another package manager, and no, we probably don't need any more of those. But at least it shows effort in coming up with an alternative to systemd. This is much more constructive than the usual 'rah rah rah...systemd is bloated evil....rah rah rah....Poettering is the Devil...rah rah rah....'.
Good luck to all involved I say.
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Originally posted by arrow View PostBut, anyway, if we install Gentoo or CRUX and replace OpenSSL, what is the difference?
Switch from OpenSSL to LibreSSL:
Code:layman -a libressl && emerge -1 dev-libs/openssl
Code:layman -d libressl && emerge -1 dev-libs/openssl
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Originally posted by stqn View PostI couldn’t find any forum for this distro. Is there one?
You can also report issues on the Github pages for the respective Void-related projects: http://www.voidlinux.eu/#src (links to the Github projects there)
And the main maintainer and a few other contributors are frequently on IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23xbps&uio=d4
Originally posted by Nille View PostThats the one thing that GNU/Linux miss. A new Package Management System.
That said, XBPS is more or less even with APT/DEB and YUM/RPM for features, including automatic dependency management, meta-packages (just install the meta XFCE package and it will pull in a full featured graphical desktop), virtual packages (things like supporting MySQL or MariaDB as drop-in replacements for each other and allowing the user to specify which one to use), RSA signing of packages (to ensure no third party is masquerading as your package repository server), sha256 hash verification of packages (to ensure the packages themselves have not been tampered with), queries equivalent to "yum search" or "apt-cache search", pinned packages (blocking all updates to that package until you type a command to permit the upgrade), pre and post install scripts for each package, forced reinstall of a package you already have, and resuming partial installations.
And like I said before, XBPS is very fast and it makes cross-compiling very easy.
So it may be mostly one developer working on his spare time, but he's fully comfortable with what the most popular packaging systems can do, and he's trying to offer a superset of that in a system that runs even faster.
The only major package management feature that he doesn't have is one that, as far as I know, is package state snapshot and rollback.
That's supported by YUM - http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index....on-Fedora.html
and I believe supported by the Nix and (defunct?) Conary package managers.
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