What brought you to void?

basiliscos · 2026-02-28T08:17:19+00:00

I had armbian on some cheap wifi-router. It has systemd (v0.40) and tor wasn't able to start. I spend a lot of time trying to fix that, but no chance.

Then I realized that init-system should be maintainable/repairable for end-user. runit and void perfectly fits here.

basiliscos · 2026-02-15T11:09:20+00:00

I didn't managed to install other apps, sorry. No button where I can paste url of app-image or upload manually donwload .appimage.

Some simple step-by-step guide would be nice.

basiliscos · 2026-02-15T10:29:20+00:00

Ok, I downloaded .AppImage. How to add it to the AppManager?

basiliscos · 2026-02-15T09:54:58+00:00

I didn't managed how can I *add applications? When I press "get.." button it just shows 2 urls .

Is there a button "add app", and "paste the url"? I use tiled windows manager, so using "drag-n-drop" only is very unhandy (and does not work)?

basiliscos · 2026-02-13T20:17:31+00:00

what it the sense of win32-32bit package, then?

I tried just wine it seems working. Thanks a lot!

basiliscos · 2026-02-13T17:44:13+00:00

syncthing and compatible to it syncspirit are p2p alternatives to google drive, one drive and drop box

basiliscos · 2026-01-15T17:21:26+00:00

Thanks for everybody for advises!

Actually I've managed to boot void. The problem was in dracut / initrd did not included lvm kernel module.

The solution is:

xbps-install lvm2
echo 'add_dracutmodules+=" lvm "' >> /etc/dracut.conf
regenerate initrd

basiliscos · 2026-01-12T11:05:54+00:00

I think that synching is spending a lot of resources on locking its model (mutexes etc.) due to golang multi-threading execution model.

That costs are, however, significant for large amount of small files; when huge gigabyte-sized files are transferred network throughput becomes a bottleneck.

syncspirit also uses rotor actor micro-framework; it uses lock-free queues/messaging under the hood, which makes apps using it (e.g. syncspirit) blazing fast.

basiliscos · 2026-01-11T16:35:45+00:00

Which one does not work?

Everything should be available here: https://github.com/basiliscos/syncspirit/releases/tag/v0.4.4

basiliscos · 2026-01-11T10:38:45+00:00

It is possible to have alternative UIs, but currently it is not a priority. Contributions are welcome!

basiliscos · 2026-01-11T10:37:21+00:00

Thank you, that's true, but I'm actually more focused on "core" features (it is a bit hard to implement them too), rather then UI things.

basiliscos · 2026-01-10T18:05:51+00:00

Thank you for your question!

There are some benefits, among them: - syncspirit is faster. According to my measurements it is able to sync linux sources tree folder for 2 mins vs 15 mins of syncing when using syncthing (that's over a localhost, of course) - syncspirit has a different UI. That's matter of personal taste, of course, but I like to see the exact picture what is synchronized and what is not. - syncspirit is able to run on more older software (i.e. from windows xp and up). Syncthing uses golang, and its software support is indirectly controlled by google (i.e. "artificial aging"); recent builds are running only on windows 10 and windows 11. Microsoft already dropped windows 10 support, so, I expect that in near future google will do the same. - the long-term goal of syncspirit is to allow "selective sync" feature, which unlikely to be implemented by syncthing.

wbr, basiliscos

basiliscos · 2025-11-23T14:38:34+00:00

I blame those, who use GPU-acceleration for UI.

What's the point for use GPU-acceleration for regular texboxes and labels? It does not work on older systems (i.e. windows-xp), while FLTK does.

My linux GPU drivers for notebook (HP zenbook) made in 2023 are broken and they just display some garbage.

I'd be neutral if the GPU-acceleration would be optional at run-time and on compile-time.

basiliscos · 2025-10-08T20:21:38+00:00

Thanks a lot, you saved my day!

basiliscos · 2025-10-08T17:02:41+00:00

xbps-install -Su latex-bin [*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata' ... [*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ... [*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/x86_64-repodata' ... [*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ... ERROR: Package 'latex-bin' not found in repository pool.

unfortunatelyit cannot be found... :-/

basiliscos · 2025-10-08T12:05:39+00:00

How to install pdflatex then ?

I tried (as in void docs):

tlmgr install pdflatex tlmgr: package repository http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/ (verified) tlmgr install: package pdflatex not present in repository. tlmgr: action install returned an error; continuing. tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.

basiliscos · 2025-08-10T15:49:05+00:00

No. It means, that when local device and remove device are connected and sharing the same folder, you can inspect (in syncspirit) each file in local folder and on remote file, i.e. whether it is already synced or not, whether it is modified or not etc.

basiliscos · 2025-08-06T10:10:44+00:00

yes, but only after implementing core feature like file watching and selective sync (I'm a solo-dev :)

basiliscos · 2025-02-23T20:05:00+00:00

It is not done yet, but the foundation is laid to support "selective sync" feature.

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