void-packages VS ly-void

I was looking for a lightweight OS to run on old Asus Eee PC 1005 HA, which uses a 32-bit Intel Atom N270 processor. I installed Void Linux (https://voidlinux.org/).

I may give DSL 2024 a try and see how it compares.

Linux Void

My computer is running Void Linux and it has only a wired network connection. I can hook up my phone for USB tethering if I need to connect to the WiFi of the ESP32. How do I update the software without downloading some shady programs from filesharing site links on my system? I have the Arduino IDE and the esptool.py script installed.

Classic "everyone is using the software wrong, but it's the fault of everyone, and not the software".

Some distros like Void seem to patch this out.[1]

From mandoc/mdocml's mandoc_char(7) [2]

In roff(7) documents, the minus sign is normally written as ‘\-’. In manual pages, some style guides recommend to also use ‘\-’ if an ASCII 0x2d “hyphen-minus” output glyph that can be copied and pasted is desired in output modes supporting it, for example in -T utf8 and -T html. But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain ‘-’ to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus.

Which is the common-sense thing to do.

Meanwhile, GNU projects become increasingly less relevant due to obnoxiousness like this.

In general the amount of wankery of "the correct hyphen" is staggering.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char

[2]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/20c66829134...

So I was about to configure a new Archlinux build on my PC and came across Void Linux. I had already read about it a year ago but never researched it in depth. I know that is a Linux distribution made from scratch, with a different package manager and so on. Void Linux users or people who have tried it, what are your thoughts on it? Do you think the PM is easy to use? what about updates and bugs? what desktop or Tilling Window Manager do you use? could you tell me about it?

Good news about dbus-next: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/46760

I actually just got ly working on void! be sure you clone latest with `--recurse-submodules`. be sure you install `base-devel xauth xorg-devel pam-devel xorg-minimal libxcb-devel`. then take the makefile and res/ly-runit-service/* from https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void. then run `make` and `sudo make install`

After building & installing ly demonstrate manager (https://github.com/nullgemm/ly) i can't‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎­seem to start it as there is no entry in /etc/sv to start. I then came across this: https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void. A build of ly that supports runit & sure enough it has a service to start however when i restart my pc and ly display manager starts, even with the right credentials it does not log in, only turning off my monitor for a moment then booting back into the display manager screen. This is the case for starting my window manager, starting my .xinitrc however it can successfully start the shell. Any help would be greatly appreciated to either start the official build, or to correct the modified one.

I'm attempting to install ly-void, a fork of the ly display manager for voidlinux. However, after I clone the repo and type make github I get an error, make: *** No rule to make target 'github'. Stop.

I haven't really had trouble with Ly on Arch (systemd). Gentoo's OpenRC seemed to cause some issues for me, but ly is built to be system-agnostic so I have no idea. This fork seems to fix some issues (Void is also an OpenRC init). https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void

Here's a pic https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void

What DM are you using? I tried to compile both ly-void and normal ly according to this guide.

I then came across this: https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void. A build of ly that supports runit & sure enough it has a service to start however when i restart my pc and ly display manager starts, even with the right credentials it does not log in, only turning off my monitor for a moment then booting back into the display manager screen. This is the case for starting my window manager, starting my .xinitrc however it can successfully start the shell.

I recently installed the LY login manager but for void from this guide here: https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void. After doing so, when rebooting my PC it takes me to LY but when I try to log in, if the info is correct it just says logged out and doesn’t let me in. I have it installed alongside SwayWM. Is there any way I can get back into the system to fix this issue or am I screwed? Thanks.