Gentoo with runit (part1)
I have been using Gentoo Linux for the last 13 years but I do like to try other distros whether on virtual machines or on bare metal, and whenever a distro has something interesting to offer, the thought that always comes to my mind is: "I can do this on gentoo but better". Void Linux is one of those distros. Its biggest selling point is the fact that it uses runit as its init system and service supervisor, and runit is such a fantastic tool, it's fast, simple, and easy to use. So I decided to try it on Gentoo. I would first try it on a virtual machine, and if it succeeded, I would move it to bare metal. I do my Gentoo installs using a live environment so I have access to a terminal, a file manager, and a web browser, and because I was going to type lots of commands and use some of my config files, it's handy to have a shared clipboard between virtual machine and host . With that done, I started by creating the filesystems (went with ext4), downloading and extracti...
