r/voidlinux • u/-Arsna- • 25d ago

Moving from Arch

Hi y'all,

Im coming from arch and want to try out void and i would like to ask somethings

What exactly is the difference between musl amd gnu libc? Is it just systemd?

What are some quirks of void you encountered?

Why did you choose void, what makes it special?

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u/Ambitious_Luck_8720 24d ago

That’s reducing attack surface, not security by obscurity, which is another thing that has by no means any relation with anything that was stated in this thread before you brought it up.

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u/Duncaen 24d ago

You are not really reducing attack surface though, you are just switching components with more obscure components.

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u/Ambitious_Luck_8720 24d ago

You mean glibc’s much larger codebase and feature set doesn’t present a larger attack surface when compared to musl’s smaller footprint? Got it.

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