

A thin panel is placed across the top of the screen. Signing into an account brings up the Xfce desktop. The login credentials for the live media are published on the distribution's Download page.
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We can sign into a regular user account or the media's root account using the password "voidlinux". Since I last tried the Xfce on musl combination, I decided to switch over to glibc and explore Xfce running on a glibc base, which is a 788MB download.īooting from the Void media brings up a graphical login screen. The smallest edition of Void is Base which is about 468MB and the largest is GNOME at 1,050MB. These, along with multiple hardware architecture support that includes x86_64, i686, and ARM, means there are a lot of download options.
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The project offers separate install media for the glibc and musl libraries. The distribution further supplies editions with two separate C libraries. The distribution offers several editions, including a minimal Base flavour, and several desktop editions that ship with the Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, LXDE, LXQt, Xfce, and MATE user interfaces.
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Void also includes the runit init software which is minimal, lightweight, and works very quickly to bring the system on-line. The project features the XBPS package manager which allows for a hybrid approach to using both binary and source packages. Void is an independently developed, rolling release distribution. Listen to the Podcast edition of this week's DistroWatch Weekly in OGG (19MB) and MP3 (14MB) formats.

Plus we report that a close relative to UNIX and Linux, called Plan 9, is now available under the open source MIT license.

In our News section we talk about improvements coming to the Purism team's Librem 5 phone and new features available in recently released GNOME 40. Do you run a Fedora-based distribution? Let us know about it in the Opinion Poll. In our Questions and Answers column we discuss this and why we do not see more Fedora-based distributions. Some parent distributions are more popular bases than others for new projects. Most Linux distributions do not strive to create something unique and instead build on existing projects, called parent distributions. This week we begin with a look at Void and discuss some of the unique project's strengths and weaknesses. The Void distribution blazes its own trail on a number of fronts, providing the runit init software, its own package manager, and multiple implementations of system libraries. Welcome to this year's 13th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!Įvery once in a while a Linux distribution comes along that takes an entirely different approach, either with the user interface, the available utilities, or the underlying technology.
