How to build your data science workstation with Void Linux

… a tutorial and a reflection

Void linux

Void Linux is linux distro that, when bundled with xfce window desktop manager, has an ISO file size of 768 MB. This is light when you compare with other distros that have file sizes that run into 2–5 gigabytes of download, and much smaller than MacOS. The distro also runs in a small amount of RAM, so that will leave you, if you want to do data science work in it, some grunt to work with. The distro nevertheless, needs, a bit of work to get to what you want…