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VoidLinux
Just recently discovered:
What is really nice:
- No systemd (runit)
- XFCE as default GUI
- offers also Musl (glibc alternative) - not yet tested
XFCE install is pretty fast - it basically unpacks tarball. However there is still package manager (no need to build from source).
Tested:
Getting PDF manual:
- on installed system look at
/usr/share/doc/void/handbook.pdf
Keeping system up-to-date:
# updating system
xbps-install -Su
# it will tell you to update xbps first:
xbps-install -u xbps
# now update other packages
xbps-install -Su
Search for packages:
# search for ALREADY INSTALLED package:
xbps-query -s bash
[*] bash-5.2.21_1 GNU Bourne Again Shell
[*] dash-0.5.12_2 POSIX-compliant Unix shell, much smaller than GNU bash
# search repositories for all (even not installed) packages
xbps-query -Rs tmux
...
[-] tmux-3.3a_2 Terminal Multiplexer
Install selected package:
xbps-install -u tmux
What I install:
# CLI programs:
xbps-install -u tmux mc curl wget vim vim-colorschemes lynx pinfo
# When running as guest under KVM you should install Agent:
xbps-install -u qemu-ga
# Enable startup of QEMU Guest Agent:
ln -s /etc/sv/qemu-ga /etc/runit/runsvdir/default/qemu-ga
# GUI programs:
xbps-install -u xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin
# To get accelerated graphics under KVM/spice/qxl:
xbps-install -u xf86-video-qxl
To play videos you can try:
xbps-install mpv celluloid vlc
Where mpv
is CLI based player, celluloid
is GUI frontend for mpv
and vlc
is another
popular player.
To play audio, try xbps-install audacious audacious-plugins
Ensure that this is installed:
xbps-install mesa-nouveau-dri glu mesa-vaapi mesa-vdpau
However I was unable to get past:
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1280x720 30.000fps)
(+) Audio --aid=1 (*) (aac 2ch 44100Hz)
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1
Errors (with mpv -vo=gpu VIDEO.mp4
)
In case of vlc
I have to install firemware from Gentoo (missing nouveau/nva8_fuc084
firmware reported from kernel)
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