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Why? So that we can spend the next week recompiling the kernel? (This is a joke, please don’t spam my inbox with distro holy wars)
Would love to do this but I don’t think all those niche specialized apps will run on Linux. They barely function under windows as it is.
Is gentoo undergoing some sort of renaissance? It’s coming up more frequently lately.
Most of them have been posted by me, lol.
Davinci?
So, you’re into sadism as well as masochism.
I love that lemmy is small enough, so that a guy called nutbutter can shape public discours:D
Be the chaos you want to see in the world.
I think my university computers all had fedora.
Anyway, I’m in.
Monday rolls around, they’ve finished like four of them. “Why won’t this kernel work?! NO, for the last time I’m not using genkernel! It’ll be a bloated mess.”
Tbf gentoo lets you connect computing power of multiple computers on a network to compile for this reason.
With a thousand cores, all the kernels can compile just-in-time :3
genkernel is basically deprecated. You can use distkernel and supply your own config or config mods.
Let’s install Gentoo on all
universitycomputers.FTFY
emergethe@world!
Yeah, central heating got wrecked last week. Now they are looking for alternatives.
Wouldn’t Fedora be the peasant distro compared to Gentoo?
It’s like food, peasants compile their packages, nobles have someone else do it for them
I think it’s the reverse.
Peasants have to actually be productive so they don’t starve, they take fast food packages without thinking about it too hard and hoping it won’t wreck them.
The nobles can afford to handpick at their leisure what goes into their systems. Their understanding of what their system needs, and their cooking skill, varies greatly though.
Wish granted, your university rolls out ChromeOS on all devices.
Is ChromeOS built on top of Gentoo?
Yuh uh!
lolllll
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As an admin that installed gentoo on all computers (>300) of a company producing Windows (oh the irony) i can say: the overhead of maintaining one gentoo system and the synchronizing the machine company-wide is neglectable… It was about 2hours a week, less then i used for Windows or ubuntu
There is a reason if gentoo is better? Like it have a particular thing that other distro don’t have?
Everything is compiled from source. This allows a few advantages, hardware specific optimisation, choosing which parts of the software you actually need eg disabling bluetooth support and being able to patch and modify the packages. Plus the gentoo community is friendly, smart and very Helpful.
@Axolotl_cpp @ceiphas it allows disable things you do not need
I thought it was a thing of any Linux system…
@Axolotl_cpp in most binary distros you cannot disable most of mesa drivers, you do not need.
you can try something likecat /proc/$(pgrep <process>)/maps|grep libdrm
for any gui process to ensure that all existing drivers are loaded. You will keep LLVM in any gui process even if your drivers does not need it (because others, that need it is linked to llvm)
Only source-based distros allows really disable itOoh
That’s actually wild. I can’t imagine anybody at work liking that
No thanks.
Slackware for the worst professors.
Still too modern. Try NetBSD.
Oh no. Someone will suggest MacOS next (BSD fork).
Use openorbis to port Vim to the ps4 (FreeBSD fork).
