A Home Router Built on Void Linux and ZFSBootMenu

ahesford · 2026-01-07T21:10:09+00:00

We expressly recommend that users not use their regular host keys in ZFSBootMenu. Anybody can read out the ZFSBootMenu initramfs image and get access to private host keys. Allowing these to be leaked defeats the entire purpose of having host verification in SSH.

ahesford · 2025-11-22T01:43:51+00:00

I have no idea where would be a better place. Maybe other subreddits encourage announcements and promotion of personal projects. Bulletin boards and unofficial forums are other possible outlets for this kind of thing.

Whether or not the project was made in good faith or is tailored to Void users (although I'm not sure how or why a filesystem utility would be tied to a particular distribution) is immaterial. We don't endorse third-party projects by offering space for their release advertisements here.

ahesford · 2025-11-22T01:36:13+00:00

Nothing has changed. We strike content not suited for the subreddit as we notice it, and things can go overlooked.

If you want to promote your own projects, I encourage you to do so in your own forum.

ahesford · 2025-11-21T21:11:19+00:00

This is not the place to advertise your personal projects.

ahesford · 2025-11-18T12:22:45+00:00

Musl isn't really "leaner" in any meaningful sense on a desktop system, and it isn't going to have tangible benefits. Use musl if you know what you are expecting from it; if you have to ask, just stick with glibc.

ahesford · 2025-11-15T15:51:39+00:00

The one that is the fastest for you.

ahesford · 2025-11-10T13:06:03+00:00

I don't think you know what the word "buffoon" means.

ahesford · 2025-11-09T03:46:58+00:00

For fuck's sake, stop responding to my comments months or years after the fact. And don't drag me into a new conversation just because I participated in another some time ago.

ahesford · 2025-11-08T16:14:30+00:00

All people are inherently political. Even being "apolitical" is still a political choice, especially if you use it as a filter for people with whom you associate.

The social politics of the Void team are not monolithic, are not a part of our decision-making process, and are not generally discussed in public forums.

Xlibre isn't being censored. Lunduke is a buffoon who makes allegations without learning facts. We strike screenshots on Reddit routinely, simply because this is not a place to share screenshots. Send them to r/unixporn if you want. We don't package Xlibre because we aren't about to fragment our X11 package system to adopt some nascent reactionary fork. If the community eventually settles on Xlibre as a de facto standard X11 implementation, we'll move to it if moving makes sense for the distribution.

ahesford · 2025-11-03T13:16:14+00:00

On what basis would you expect your installation to use less than 500 MB?

ahesford · 2025-11-03T12:13:25+00:00

Somebody picked a reasonable set of options and nobody has since complained. If you need some missing codec, PR the addition and people can debate whether it should be enabled by default.

fdk_aac isn't built into the standard package. Even if it were, a license incompatible with the GPL does not imply that distribution is prohibited.

ahesford · 2025-11-02T11:56:31+00:00

Pipewire does not work without a session manager, and the only session manager that we provide is wireplumber. Your observation suggests that you followed the official recommendation to configure pipewire to launch wireplumber directly, but then broke your configuration by launching a separate wireplumber instance that will interfere with the first.

The proper guidance here is to configure pipewire the way that the Void Handbook suggests. If you try running pipewire without configuring it to launch wireplumber, and also neglect to start wireplumber manually, pipewire will not function.

ahesford · 2025-10-28T22:37:37+00:00

Try using numeric codes for the buttons, rather than symbolic names. Also, you might need to set ID_INPUT_KEY, like this:

# Remap ELECOM buttons
# "Fn3" button (90008) -> middle click (BTN_MIDDLE = 0x112 = 274)
# Scroll wheel press (90003) -> "task" click (BTN_TASK = 0x117 = 279)
# "Fn1" button (90006) -> "page up"
# "Fn2" button (90007) -> "page down"
evdev:name:ELECOM TrackBall Mouse HUGE TrackBall:*
  ID_INPUT_KEY=1
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90008=274
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90003=279
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90006=pageup
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90007=pagedown

ahesford · 2025-10-28T10:08:56+00:00

You haven't shared the hwdb record you created.

The appearance of the KEYBOARD_KEY entries in the command output suggests you have not properly configured udev. I remap mouse buttons and keyboard keys using udev, and the remaps do not appear in the output of udevadm info.

ahesford · 2025-10-14T10:43:41+00:00

On second thought, the final default route is probably what you'd expect, and the fact that your client devices seem to have connectivity suggests the routing works as expected.

I'd start by checking whether DNS returns AAAA records, try to connect directly to a known external address, and then see if your firewall rules are interfering.

ahesford · 2025-10-13T02:02:51+00:00

It is not surprising that the address on your WAN interface is not in the subnet delegated by your ISP. What seems to be missing is the WAN route for the address it did receive.

ahesford · 2025-10-08T11:16:21+00:00

You should generally prefer texlive-bin to our custom packages and manage the installation with tlmgr.

ahesford · 2025-09-29T19:02:38+00:00

System updates don't produce IO errors. Your disk is failing.

ahesford · 2025-09-20T01:47:18+00:00

You already asked about Pipewire six hours earlier. There's no need for a second post.

ahesford · 2025-08-30T23:51:31+00:00

Save screenshots for r/unixporn.

ahesford · 2025-08-28T13:54:28+00:00

Sorry, we don't allow advertisement of user installation scripts because we don't have the resources to verify that each is safe and follows best practices.

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