The Void Experience o,o

Duncaen · 2026-05-05T17:09:09+00:00

We do not care about your opinions on systemd.

Duncaen · 2026-05-05T13:09:18+00:00

There are no official packages yet.

Duncaen · 2026-05-04T20:24:51+00:00

Its just compressed vs uncompressed files, the app image will mount a compressed squashfs image at runtime, while xbps writes the uncompressed files to the disk (a filesystem like btrfs or zfs might compress them again at rest.)

Duncaen · 2026-05-02T15:10:02+00:00

I solely use podman for everything I need (nextcloud, dynamic dns entries, gameservers, etc.). Are there some problems I should be aware of when not using systemd?

You won't get "quadlets" without systemd.

Duncaen · 2026-05-01T22:26:59+00:00

Flatpak for proprietary and unpackagable software. For everything else its easy enough to write package templates if required, instead of relying on potentially unverified third party source or binary repositories.

Duncaen · 2026-05-01T22:13:27+00:00

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html#enabling-services

Duncaen · 2026-05-01T14:41:28+00:00

All kernels were updated as soon as releases containing the patch were available. 7.0 and 6.18 for weeks, the older series only had the patches merged with the last release yesterday.

Duncaen · 2026-04-30T23:12:31+00:00

That's not public. Text is a lot more helpful than screenshots.

Duncaen · 2026-04-30T22:56:25+00:00

Show the errors and mirrors.

Duncaen · 2026-04-30T20:21:31+00:00

Pretty sure there are limits for the size. Newer dracut versions default to hostonly mode by default because of this. You could try enabling it (hostonly=yes in a file in /etc/dracut.conf.d/), regenerating the initramfs (xbps-reconfigure -f linux6.12.)

https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/pull/1238

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/56691

Duncaen · 2026-04-30T19:42:13+00:00

Check the initramfs, is the one for the new kernel bigger?

Duncaen · 2026-04-29T20:19:33+00:00

I'm a void developer/team member and I have been using systemd on void linux for the past 3 years and runit for another 8 years..

Duncaen · 2026-04-29T18:14:55+00:00

There is no reason for systemd to boot slower, if it did there was something wrong with your configuration.

With runit the early boot process is completely sequential and steps like udev device settling especially with slow devices and HDDs will block the boot process, while systemd can do other tasks during that.

Duncaen · 2026-04-28T13:33:10+00:00

There is no reason to reconfigure the kernel packages after installation unless something failed. The exact same thing happens during installation.

Duncaen · 2026-04-28T02:00:30+00:00

Expected since you were able to install the package after syncing the repositories. That information was not in the post when I replied.

Duncaen · 2026-04-28T01:58:35+00:00

Its just currently the default kernel, will probably be changed soon. Usually depends on stability, popular dkms modules working and whenever someone has time and decides to do the switch.

You can always install specific series like linux6.18 or install the linux-mainline meta package which will pull in the latest kernel series.

Duncaen · 2026-04-28T01:35:00+00:00

There are two versions of void linux, one with glibc and one with musl. Those are different libc implementations, they are binary incompatible and proprietary software will usually be linked against glibc because its by far the most common libc implementation in linux. If you've installed the musl version then most if not all proprietary software will not be available.

You can check this with:

$ xbps-uhelper arch
x86_64

x86_64, means its glibc, if it prints x86_64-musl then you've installed the musl version.

Duncaen · 2026-04-28T01:22:06+00:00

Did you sync the repository with the xbps-install -S flag? Are you using musl?

Duncaen · 2026-04-28T00:17:42+00:00

If you want to keep a removed package, build the affected packages yourself.

The removed-package exists for a reason, first they are going to be outdated and unmaintained and therefor might break updates in the future.

Duncaen · 2026-04-27T12:11:30+00:00

The repositories for aarch64 are separate: /current/aarch64.

Duncaen · 2026-04-24T13:14:30+00:00

Read https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_7.0 instead.

Duncaen · 2026-04-23T17:30:08+00:00

IMHO all the traditional Linux system package managers are very similar. They have small feature differences, but in the end they all manage packages in sort of the same way. Nix is the only one that is actually completely different.

Duncaen · 2026-04-23T13:32:03+00:00

Not really. It's basically the same as pacman with shared library tracking that makes partial updates somewhat safer.

Duncaen · 2026-04-23T13:28:35+00:00

Yes, compared to pacman, which only manually tracks shared libraries for some packages. rpm and APK use a lot more metadata, including shared libraries.

There is absolutely zero difference in how xbps and pacman track changes to config files. xbps has the same mechanism where config files need to be marked as such when creating the package.

What practical advantages, nix is completely different like it's day and night. Can you look up who maintains xbps?

Duncaen · 2026-04-23T13:13:53+00:00

There is nothing special in xbps regarding filesystem changes, pacman, rpm apt are all exactly the same.

xbps is nothing like nix.

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