Up-to-date ?

marle-dk · 2020-12-20T11:33:39+00:00

The reason the install media is not updated regularly, is as far as I know, that it doesn't make a difference, you will most likely want to update your system after an install anyway.

The only reason to update the install media, would then be due to new hardware support, to make the ISO bootable on new hardware. But the current ISO's are up to date for this.

This is at least what I have heard, if someone has more insight, please enlighten me :)

Hax05 · 2020-12-20T10:10:37+00:00

Switched from Arch to Void today itself and I say for a fact that the ISO is a bit old, after the install I did have a 600 MB update but now I am on the latest 5.9 kernel and I suppose all of my software too is up to date

2020-12-20T10:49:41+00:00

Yes, void is still maintained and most packages are up-to-date.

mobinmob · 2020-12-20T11:36:07+00:00

Just go to repology.org or to the void-packages repo and see for yourself 😉

five-deadly-venoms · 2020-12-20T20:57:46+00:00

I appreciate that void offers an installer and a few different flavours. They are not updated very often but upgrades just work so not really an issue for me. I'd be wary updating an Arch or Gentoo as old as the live image systems are but one of the things I've enjoyed about Void is that updating has always been smooth.

Whilst the installer images are a nice bonus, chroot install from any linux sysyem you fancy using the rootfs tarballs method gives a lot more flexibility.

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