Odyssey Linux

> Odyssey is Void with three extra packages

> This distribution is maintained by one person.

I'm sorry if this is too negative, but I give it less than 12 months before it's abandoned.

Maintaining a linux distro gets very boring after a while.

	▲	tosti 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn't have to be boring if you challenge yourself just enough to make something neat. But I can pretty much guarantee it can get tedious and ungrateful. On top of that, you're not getting paid. I know I can't afford to live that life. Perhaps when I retire, idk.

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goodroot 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I understand what it is. I'm just wondering why.

The code is also not immediately available, which makes claims towards any chain of trust somewhat dubious.

And I'm not sure what purist really means in this context, and how a rolling release is - or even implies - inherently "pure" Unix. If systemd is the hill to die on, Void is active and supported.

Usually I default to encouragement; I don't mean to put any water on OP's fire, yet there's a whole lot of grand words in these essays. And really not a lot of explaining why any of this would make me switch from, for example, Arch, or that explain which problems are being solved.

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soerxpso 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's Void with GUIs around runit and xbps. The problem being attempted is that Void is not very accessible to users new to Linux. This is pretty clear from the website.

	▲	mmh0000 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You mean the website that hijacks, then breaks, the back button making it incredibly annoying to read? I gave up after the 2 faq links.

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LargoLasskhyfv 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The code is also not immediately available, which makes claims towards any chain of trust somewhat dubious.

https://code.odysseylinux.org/explore/repos ?

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mangogogo 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

high-volume, highly detailed writing with a confusing sense of grandiosity for something people haven't yet heard of. i'm sure it's great, but a lot of this smells like LLM.

	▲	smitty1e 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same vibe. Plus, there is a very "community" spirit in successful distros. The Linux version of TempleOS is of clinical interest only.

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igh4st 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't you want to make the letters even smaller? I almost get crossed eyes trying to read the features.

	▲	paularmstrong 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I closed the page and gave up figuring out what this was about because of the poor contrast ratio and tiny font. [edit] apparently the contrast ratio is technically okay. But this is one of those cases where raw contrast ratio isn't actually a good measure of accessibility. Just because some text has 5.92:1 contrast ratio, doesn't mean that at 11px font-size it's legible.
	▲	ks2048 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		LLMs don't notice this. Gray-on-black-small-letters. An immediate close the tab for me.

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recsv-heredoc 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's unlikely that someone who understands this well enough to see its value wouldn't be completely comfortable with a terminal interface.

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hankbond 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Website design is borderline unreadable and the copy just drips LLM slop. This is your first interaction with potential users. Please put some care into accessibility and originality (just write like we are chatting). Your current website is very off-putting.

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Gualdrapo 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Odyssey holds a balance that's unique in the GNU/Linux landscape. It carries the essence of Void's purist Unix philosophy — its stable rolling-release model — and refines it into a ready-to-use experience, a verifiable chain of trust, and a coherent aesthetic. The first polished no-systemd distribution: optimized, customized, simple yet powerful, privacy- and security-oriented."

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wgd 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At first I thought this excerpt was meant to warn people off without directly alleging AI authorship, but I guess that's less likely since I see you're also the submitter

	▲	glenstein 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I got the same impression especially from reading the about page. And it wasn't the em dash this time but the triplet of one word sentences. But just to comment directly on it and offer something constructive I appreciate a non systemd option that looks nice and hope this gets enough of a user base that it counts as votes in favor of that kind of paradigm.

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wrs 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>The first polished no-systemd distribution

Surely not. There were no polished Debians before 2014?

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metoobruh 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have my own non-systemd distro so won't be using yours, but wanted to give you props for your hard work and for keeping the no-systemd flag flying. They want to obsolete us? Nope, we'll obsolete them.