about · a confession
I never meant to build a distribution.
There were already too many.
Everyone knew it. I knew it.
Then I found Void Linux —
and something clicked.
runit. xbps. No systemd. No corporate agenda.
A distribution that behaved the way
Unix was always supposed to behave.
I switched. I stayed.
But I kept noticing the same gap.
The distributions closest to the Unix philosophy —
Void, Gentoo, Slackware —
are also the ones that demand the most.
They are right to demand it.
But they leave something on the table.
The graphical layer.
The tools that should exist but nobody built.
Not because they are hard.
Because nobody bothered.
The systemd world had everything.
The non-systemd world had the terminal
and the assumption you already knew everything.
So I built them.
A kernel with BORE scheduling, native to Void via xbps.
An installer that works without systemd.
A package manager with a face.
A control center that looks like one app
but runs as nine independent modules —
because that is how Unix works.
The software preinstalled is deliberately minimal.
You decide what goes on your system.
Odyssey does not decide for you.
This distribution is maintained by one person.
Anonymous. Unknown.
If I disappear, Odyssey slows down.
If I get sick, Odyssey gets sick.
I am telling you this because you deserve to know.
Odyssey is Void with three extra packages
and the tools that should have always existed.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
unix for human beings.
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Nobody pays for the servers. Nobody pays for the hosting. Nobody spends the hours. That nobody is me. If Odyssey gives you value, consider giving something back. Ten cents. Ten euros. Whatever feels right. No tier, no reward, no subscription. Just more time to keep doing this.
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