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duane Apprentice
Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 193 Location: Oklahoma City
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 1:15 pm Post subject: GenCrack |
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I put arch on most of my machines almost a year ago, and it worked fine. Updating was fast, and if I wanted to try something new, it didn't take long to download. I particularly like the archiso package for making livecds.
Then I made the mistake of installing a gentoo chroot for a project. Now I'm putting gentoo back on everything again. It's obviously an addiction. :p |
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spork_kitty Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jul 2019 Posts: 124
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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It puts me in the driver's seat. I have a toolchain by default. Patches, ebuilds, it's all text files. The tooling for building a distro is pretty good. Packages tend to be good about providing USE flags.
Most importantly, I can fork at will or maintain an overlay, if Gentoo goes stupid, and I won't be left wondering where to go. I can carry on where Gentoo left off.
Few distros do that as well as Gentoo. |
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mouacyk n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 23
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:38 am Post subject: |
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Considering the many cycles of CPU vulnerabilities, where executing malicious code can compromise data and the system, why don't more people use Gentoo? _________________ OCed24/7: 9900K5.0GHz//16GB4000MHzC16//1080Ti2.10GHz
OCed24/7: 1680v24.5GHz//32GB2333MHzC10//750Ti[GHz |
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cornplayz256 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 107 Location: /dev/mmcblk0
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo is very customizable for me and lets me have freedom to do whatever i want with the packages i install. it's also very nice for development and gaming. |
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plp n00b
Joined: 07 Dec 2021 Posts: 15 Location: Little Rock, AR, USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Because coming from NetBSD as my primary OS for 10 years.
I was tired of having to use Linux emulation to run certain applications and I didn’t want to learn how to use systemd. So 4 years ago I gave Slackware a spin stuck with it until recently.
I love the documentation, freedom of compiling locally instead of grabbing binaries, and the level control I have over the system.
I‘ve found the perfect OS for me. |
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