[doubled112]

I hear good things about Void, but last time I tried to install it, the mirror I was pulling from had the download time estimate at a couple of days, and I didn't have time to muck about that day.

Might be time to try it again - or a different mirror

[wrycoder]

I was enthusiastic about Void, until I learned more about its history.

[rogers18445]

What history is that and why does it matter today?

[doubled112]

https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/serious-issues.html

Same problem as any other project with a single owner, or even a small team. It is at risk of disappearing one day, never to be heard from again.

There are a lot of important projects that fall into this category. It certainly isn't unique to Void.

[rogers18445]

That drama has ended, he was demoted from dictator. Now things are chugging along with multiple contributors like most other projects.

For me Void seems like a very good distro, I think of it as a naked kernel with runnit init and xbps as the package manager, nothing gets in the way. It also has the nice property where the git repo is the distro in every sense.

[wrycoder]

While the problem wasn’t unique, the hostile takeover of the project was. The honorable and legal course of action would be to fork.

The owner had built the distro single-handed over ten years, and GitHub and Freenode helped to eject him from his own project, over his eventual strenuous objections.

https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/

Even that link doesn’t give a balanced story. You have to track down the founder’s posts to hear his side and to understand why he had stopped contributing for awhile.