October 26th, 2019 at 4:06 AM
Just installed Void Linux on one of my Pis, building it up for wardriving and might make another guide on it.
Install was surprisingly easy, basically just like a liveboot version but you need to play with a bunch of settings, since they do have Pi/aarch64 specific images available on the site.
Idle RAM usage is 25MB, I feel enlightened. Would recommend. Most things just werks™.
Installing new packages is hell of a lot faster than Gentoo too, because not as much compilation needed unless you specifically want to compile. I like how pretty much every major aspect of Void is written by the devs like the init system (runit/sv) and the package manager (xbps). I trust them hell of a lot more than I trust other major distro repos/package managers.
I also like that they opt to use musl over glibc, seems to be a really good option for keeping things lightweight and still just about full with compatibility. Need to look more into the specific differences with my own code, but so far it's been treating me nicely.
I should also note that 25MB is in headless mode, so no xorg or any other bullshit. Still working with some init scripts but I'm not getting any major changes in resource usage.
Install was surprisingly easy, basically just like a liveboot version but you need to play with a bunch of settings, since they do have Pi/aarch64 specific images available on the site.
Idle RAM usage is 25MB, I feel enlightened. Would recommend. Most things just werks™.
Installing new packages is hell of a lot faster than Gentoo too, because not as much compilation needed unless you specifically want to compile. I like how pretty much every major aspect of Void is written by the devs like the init system (runit/sv) and the package manager (xbps). I trust them hell of a lot more than I trust other major distro repos/package managers.
I also like that they opt to use musl over glibc, seems to be a really good option for keeping things lightweight and still just about full with compatibility. Need to look more into the specific differences with my own code, but so far it's been treating me nicely.
I should also note that 25MB is in headless mode, so no xorg or any other bullshit. Still working with some init scripts but I'm not getting any major changes in resource usage.
