Version: 20250108
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-17
Votes: 2
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Great distro with a very helpful Telegram group. Been my desktop system now for a couple of years and while I often check out other distro's (usually in Virtualbox) none have pleased me as much as Venom. As others have mentioned the scratchpkg package manager is great. ATM I run Openbox on Wayland but have also used X11and xfce4 with no problems. Lots of applications in the repo's covering mainly open source but also some closed source (eg. Bitwarden).
Give it a go, you will be impressed too
BJA
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-09
Votes: 1
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i have used venom in a VM i did try installing on bare metal but for some reason the installer wouldn't pick up my partition like the VM did. Anyways, this review is about scratchpkg itself. I've adopted it as my package manager on a LFS install. I will say this is on par with kiss linux's package manager. I absolutely love it and how it functionss. I've been recommending it to everyone that I know that runs linux. The creator is very helpful and active but its on a telegram channel. The community is great as well
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Version: 20210312
Rating: 6
Date: 2021-05-11
Votes: 6
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I would give it a good score if i could find decent documentation..
Only thing i can say is that installation went fine and it seems to be really responsive.
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Version: 20210312
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-06
Votes: 17
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Been using it for a while now, and it's my favorite distro ever. I've switched the default out with herbstluftwm and the idle ram usage with xterm open is only about 130MB! the default theme is beautiful, and I love scratchpkg a ton, because like everything else on venom it's super-fast, and it just works! the repos are a little small, but it's easy to work around, and it's definitely worth it. my computer is super slow, yet scratchpkg still compiles super-fast without errors. I absolutely recommend trying venom, even if you just try it in a VM. I first found it when my friend recommended Gentoo, but it was ultimately too much of a hassle for me, so I looked for other source-based distros and found venom, and I'm so happy I did!
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Version: 20210312
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-03
Votes: 10
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one of the best LFS distro I ever tried. Minimalist, light and amazing package manager
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Version: 20210312
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-13
Votes: 8
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Venom user for 18 months now I give it a heart rate of 10 points for the following reasons:
- the small development team is very attentive to the community to add new packages or to correct any bugs encountered
- compilation from source is set to the minimum required so no unnecessary effects are added (I also use Funtoo so I can easily compare two source based systems)
- the system is very responsive and light and it is a pleasure to use it on a daily basis
- creating or modifying package build files (spkgbuild) is very simple and easy to understand
Of course, we can blame the lack of documentation and the lack of depth of the software library, but we must know how to uncomment the "non-free" repository in the /etc/scratchpkg.repo file to have access to additional packages including LibreOffice!
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