VOID LINUX 64-Bit and 32-Bit BASE AND XFCE 4 DVD Set Same Day Shipping USA. The Void (Linux) distributionVoid is a general purpose operating system, based on the monolithic Linux kernel. Its package system allows you to quickly install, update and remove software; software is provided in binary packages or can be built directly from sources with the help of the XBPS source packages collection. Void Linux is an independent distribution, meaning it is not based upon any other “upstream” distribution. It also has no corporate backing and is created by a team of volunteer developers, with no paid staff.It is available for a variety of platforms. Software packages can be built natively or cross compiled through the XBPS Package collection.The official website ominously invites you to “enter the void”, but in reality it turns out to be a friendly distribution with the Xfce desktop. Good documentation makes it easy for newcomers to download it and use it, too.Void Linux is a rolling release so there are no “new releases”, unlike in the Ubuntu world. Instead, there are regular software updates and every few months a new download version is posted which incorporates all the updates to that point.BackgroundVoid Linux was started by Juan Romero Pardines from Spain in 2008. A NetBSD developer, he was working on a personal project (a new package management system) and needed a test environment to try it out on. The command line-only ‘X Binary Package System‘ (XBPS) package manager was successful and attracted some additional help to work on the distribution. Pardons left the project in 2018 and it was taken over by the community who now number over 700 developers who enthusiastically keep it going. XBPS is also developed by the Void Linux team and remains a feature of the distribution. The initialization system employed is run rather than the common system used in most distributions today, including all those based on Debian and Fedora. Run seems to result in fast boots at least.The Void Linux website is well worth mentioning. Unlike many distribution websites, it is well thought out and information is easily found. It also has very complete and well-written documentation which is something that makes using Void Linux easy, as all the answers are quickly found. There is even a searchable database of applications to install. This level of documentation makes Void Linux suitable for Linux beginners.There is no need to feel alone in the void, as help and community connections are available. The project has a presence on Twitter, a libera.chat IRC channel, and its own dedicated subreddit too.ApplicationsVoid Linux comes with a very minimal set of default applications, including:Firefox 78.14.0 ESR web browser Mousepad 0.5.7 text editor Thunar 4.15.10 file browser Parole 4.16.0 media player Ristretto 0.11.0 image viewer Xfce Task Manager 1.4.2 system monitorXfce4 Terminal 0.8.10 terminal emulatorAs can be seen, there is no default webcam application, no office suite, email client, word processor, or even screenshot tool. The good news is that the repositories are well-stocked with lots of choices and the XBPS package manager can be used to retrieve them all quickly. Every application I looked for I found on the website package listing, including popular applications like Chromium, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, FileZilla, gFTP, Thunderbird, and even more esoteric ones like the Tesseract command-line optical character reader. Other desktops, like LXQt and Gnome are available to install, as well.I actually like the philosophy of leaving a desktop distribution ISO with just a bare minimum of applications to get started and then making everything needed easy to install, with good package listings and clear instructions on how to do it.