Void Linux Continues Rolling Along & Remains Systemd-Free

[Michael_S]

I am a systemd and glibc fanboy, and I love apt-get and yum/dnf.

But one of the things that makes free software great is choice. Void is awesome, so if it has a huge surge in popularity, great.

[darkcoder]

You forgot to mention that it is using MUSL libc instead of glibc... essetially it's halfway to being BSD/Linux

There are some instances were MUSL libc isn't as fast as glibc but it seems like it is coded cleanly and is a bit less rampant on memory hogging..

Actually Void has packages and ISO with both musl and glibc. When you download it you decide which one and desktop to get.

[starshipeleven]

Must admit that the "lack of systemd" is just "one of the novelties" that this distro has.

It does look like originality for its own sake, not a Devuan-like distro using uselessd because waaah! waaah! Unix! waaah!