Many are looking for SystemD-free linux distros now a days. The most popular distro on Distrowatch is MX Linux right now which is SystemD-free. SystemD has become a giant of an init system. It has come to a point that people are considering moving over to BSD to get rid of it! But maybe there are enough distros to consider before making the switch.
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MAC Address can be used to track a device. So it is better to use a fake, random MAC address every time it connects. In this tutorial we won’t use any extra tool, just plain simple Network Manager. So this should keep your system light.
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Sources are great to make packages out of them. But in some cases they need to be modified or updated to suit our needs. e.g. a package may not have frequent releases but there are changes in the dependencies in the meanwhile that raise errors if not adopted to new changes in the dependencies. This breaks the packages. This calls for a change in the source files to match the new depends.
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Create a boot partition preferably 1GB or at least 512MB. (Because it does not delete the old kernel files from /boot when new kernel is installed. We’ll have to clean up the old kernel version files more often if we have a smaller partition). We’ll have to have a separate boot partition because encrypted boot partition cannot be read by GRUB. Librebooted machines have the ability to use encrypted boot partitions though.
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Encryption saves your valuable data from bad people or people who want to get access to your data. LUKS encryption is a low-overhead, lightweight encryption for Linux platform. This one is about how to install Void Linux inside a LUKS encrypted drive. Don’t worry this does not use volume groups and such, so it is easy for starters.
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runit is an alternative init system, similar to SystemD. All the popular distros use SystemD. But SystemD has gained some critique that it tries to be everything besides being an init system! It’s opposite to Unix philosophy.
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Void Linux is a GNU+Linux distro with runit as its init system instead of SystemD. In my experience it is lightweight, responsive – even lighter compared to Arch Linux and follows Unix philosophy better than any other common distros. It follows BSD principles too. Which would ease the conversion for people considering BSD to get away from SystemD, but allow them to stay on the GNU+Linux ecosystem at the same time.
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XBPS is an independent package format created by Void Linux. xbps-src is an utility to create XBPS packages. Those packages can be used for installing and uninstalling programs later on. Similar to PKGBUILDs on Arch Linux, xbps-src takes a script-like file with variables and instructions to grab the source and build it to generate package files. It is like building from source, but automatically.
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