Void Linux gave itself to the void, Korora needs a long siesta – life is hard for small distros | Linux Today

Void Linux gave itself to the void, Korora needs a long siesta – life is hard for small distros

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Scott Gilbertson
May 21, 2018

The main developer of Void Linux has apparently disappeared. It’s a small, independent distribution (not a fork), but does have more than one person working on it and more than a few users. It’s notable for a couple of things – one is that it remains systemd-free, another is that it uses LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL.

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Scott Gilbertson

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