If one doesn’t have too many resources, because for uses an older raspberry pi for example, I can also recommend using Void’s preconfigured image. You even get to choose between glibc and musl. I used to have such a set up, for my personal server, and is was really lightweight, at least for modern standards. A web server, and IRC server, SSH, inetd for FTP and Git cloning, and a few other deamons required barley 10-13 MB of RAM (compared to the 512 MB the system had to offer all together).
This setup is probably less resource consuming compared to the one showed in the post; bet the point was to show an easy configuration of a basic Raspberry Pi. For someone new to Linux/similar systems, how complex would you rate the Void installation you mention with those services?
I guess that is true, I was talking about this more generally. The big downside would probably be a lack of any GUI, even if one would want to have one. All the networking stuff shoud be the same. Other than that, I guess most problems would have an analogous, but of course different, because void uses xbps as compared apt. So generally speaking, I guess considering the potential benefits, if of course one values what void offers (cleaner package management, more minimalist init system, etc.).
But ultimately, I’m not sure if I can really give an unbiased opinion, since it really worked well for me, who has had a bit of experience with linux & co.
I used the official image build process and added my customizations for a minimal system w/ everything I needed. It is pretty straight forward: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen
If one doesn’t have too many resources, because for uses an older raspberry pi for example, I can also recommend using Void’s preconfigured image. You even get to choose between glibc and musl. I used to have such a set up, for my personal server, and is was really lightweight, at least for modern standards. A web server, and IRC server, SSH, inetd for FTP and Git cloning, and a few other deamons required barley 10-13 MB of RAM (compared to the 512 MB the system had to offer all together).
This setup is probably less resource consuming compared to the one showed in the post; bet the point was to show an easy configuration of a basic Raspberry Pi. For someone new to Linux/similar systems, how complex would you rate the Void installation you mention with those services?
There’s a specific wiki page for the raspberry pi. It’s a little sparse, but looks straightforward.
I’ve never tried Void, but I think I might after this.
I guess that is true, I was talking about this more generally. The big downside would probably be a lack of any GUI, even if one would want to have one. All the networking stuff shoud be the same. Other than that, I guess most problems would have an analogous, but of course different, because void uses xbps as compared apt. So generally speaking, I guess considering the potential benefits, if of course one values what void offers (cleaner package management, more minimalist init system, etc.).
But ultimately, I’m not sure if I can really give an unbiased opinion, since it really worked well for me, who has had a bit of experience with linux & co.
I used the official image build process and added my customizations for a minimal system w/ everything I needed. It is pretty straight forward: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen