I know new distros pop up like mushrooms, but this one has a particular angle and level of care that I think might interest many of you — both experienced users and those who want a ready-to-use system.
It’s called Odyssey. Void-based, rolling, no systemd. An optimized kernel à la CachyOS, browser running in RAM, a bulletproof supply chain (https://odysseylinux.org/security.html) you can verify yourself, and much moer. https://odysseylinux.org/features.html
Take a look: https://odysseylinux.org/
Stable release lands in early August — the beta is already available. I hope you’ll find it interesting.
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on its face this sounds ideal and i am interested in reading more about it - the webpage text seems ai written though - what role did ai play in your creation of the website for the distro and the distro itself?
I can’t find any link to source code, and searching for it on DDG also seems to give nothing. Unless I’m terminally blind and you can see it. In which case checking commits, their description, and code in general could help figuring this out.
If it’s just the text, then personally I don’t mind. A lot of great programmers and engineers aren’t linguists in the slightest, and so their writing is rarely a pleasant read. Here at least everything is clear and properly written. Assuming it is indeed AI-written, because I can’t really tell anymore.
I think this is it: https://code.odysseylinux.org/explore/repos
no systemD?!? gonna check it out
IDK if I’ll try it but… you should really change the distro’s claim: “unix for human beings” sounds like the distro is an ubuntu ripoff.
Not wanting to be pedantic and I couldn’t care less actually, but it also happens that linux is not a pure unix
incredibly sus looking tbh, page looks vibe coded. just dropping a distro with one guy, addressing concerns on security just by having signing keys (list packages? did you do any personal coding on this? which directory has the custom code on the repo? it would help validate trust). at least fan projects on github of say, spinoff images of fedora atomic are more descriptive about what is in the package.
No SystemD? No thanks.
No systemd? YES PLEASE!!
