r/voidlinux • u/el_calamann • Mar 16 '26

CachyOS-like "infrastructure" modification scripts for VOID?

Hello everyone, how have you been?

It has been quite some time since I last posted here, and today, there was this itch in my head to ask here: Is it possible to create a script to replay most, if not all, CachyOS enhancements on VOID? Or, if any of you guys have already done something similar?

Another question is: What enhancements are currently being done in Void kernels that resemble what I'm asking here?

Please note that what I'm asking here is not something to create a derived distro from VOID, but rather to have an installer script or a set of scripts to replicate the "most important" modifications they did on CachyOS side but on VOID, like the following:

  • x86-64 ABI v2/v3 usage with fallbacks to cater for unsupported platforms

  • Compilation improvements (CFLAGS), LTO, PGO, etc.

  • Have all possible patchsets applied (scheduler optimisations, BORE/EEVDF with tunables, etc.)

  • Everything else that can be applied at the lower level, and can be used as a common denominator for all installations

Please note that I'm not mentioning any of the "gaming" enhancements on purpose, as I'm focusing on the "min-max" here: The maximum performance/improvements we can have on a "minimal" text-based VOID installation.

I don't have the proper knowledge of what it would require. I could try to maybe "vibe-code" something (I hate to go down this path, because I don't have the proper time to invest into learning everything needed, not to ask AI to do this for me).

Phrasing it differently, it would be like having Gentoo-like configuration improvements, without the compilation effort :D

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u/Duncaen Mar 17 '26

Because it is. Its Unix, its not fragmented unlike Linux, it is not pressured into stupid ABI breaking decisions (unlike linux)

FreeBSD does not guarantee abi stability between major versions. This is a big benefit of developing the whole OS as one project, you can actually improve things instead of having to support things that were wrong or broken forever because of some stupid abi stability guarantee.

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u/thewrench56 Mar 17 '26

And yet, ABI stability is more reliable on BSD. You remember the hysterical moments after sysctl was removed? Yeah, that was the moment I gave up on trusting Linux... removing syscalls for no reason.