I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.
Agreed. I blew up. Multiple Gentoo installs, but by the time I stopped using it, I could recover from any of my mistakes. I still miss portage but I actually use my linux machines now instead them being the project themselves :p. I’m a boring Debian boy now…
I don’t think a Gentoo Prefix is anything but an environment directly on the host, it’s not containerized in any way. For me its for a system where the package manager is a bit outdated or I need to patch it, then installing with portage by a Gentoo Prefix helps me do that.
I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.
Agreed. I blew up. Multiple Gentoo installs, but by the time I stopped using it, I could recover from any of my mistakes. I still miss portage but I actually use my linux machines now instead them being the project themselves :p. I’m a boring Debian boy now…
I run my Gentoo like a Debian by now. All stable (except Firefox) and conservative compiler flags.
Binary packages also look kinda interesting.
Sometimes I want to tinker and I unmask some packages.
Run a Gentoo Prefix maybe? You get portage and can install customized packages like one does, without risking the system.
Interesting. Why not use systemd-nspawn? From what I understand, the kernel is shared anyway.
I don’t think a Gentoo Prefix is anything but an environment directly on the host, it’s not containerized in any way. For me its for a system where the package manager is a bit outdated or I need to patch it, then installing with portage by a Gentoo Prefix helps me do that.
I wanted to try Gentoo to learn more about Linux and compiling.
But that fucking distro just works, and compiling is so automatic I’m done in one command!
I feel betrayed, but also very satisfied by the distro.
Fuck binary blobs.
Sadly, it’s Systemd or Openrc only.
Edit: though there was a s6 custom repo i think, last i looked?