Gentoo Linux Offers First Party Binary Repo

Gentoo Linux is known as a source based distro but that doesn't mean that it's the only thing it can offer and just recently it has started offering alongside that a full binary repo for all of it's supported architectures

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[JohnSmith-lcml]

Brodie "Chinese Carbon Emissions" Robertson

[urlhnd]

Next thing you’re gonna tell me it’s raining frogs and Ubuntu has removed snaps. Nice try Brodie

[laughingvampire]

11:06 as Daniel Robbins, Gentoo's creator put it, "Gentoo is about options, automate LFS" not about source-based distro, this has always been a misunderstanding of the community. Compilation from source has always been a mean to the goal of maximize options, not the identity of Gentoo, at least not if you actually know Gentoo, if you don't know it then you call it a "source based distro" it is a *meta-distro*

[LabiaLicker]

Gentoo is the OG meta distro. Its also fairly easy to have your own build server that you can then distribute binary to your systems regardless of architecture. So much freedom with your system when your on gentoo.

[helidrones]

I am on Gentoo since 2004 and using it as a daily driver. For large packages like Chromium, ready made binaries come in handy. To shorten world updates, I have moved to a 22 core / 44 thread Xeon some days ago.

[JonathosDX]

I haven't run Gentoo in nearly two decades, but it was a fantastic way to truly learn how Linux actually works. And I still remember losing weekends to compiling new desktop releases, so this sounds like a net positive to me.

[immoloism]

What do you mean no one would want to install Gentoo on a PS2? Once I finish installing Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi 0 I will be writing a very strongly worded e-mail to the manager over this!

[quintinsmits]

I used to run Gentoo as my main OS from ±2003 till 2009. At one point I bought a dual CPU motherboard so I could compile software updates faster 😅. Last year I found my old laptop from that time (Pentium M, 32 bit), after running updates (compiling...) for almost a week, it was up to date and actually quite fast in general use. Quite impressive...

[Peeves]

3:30 is most likely for the situations where only the short version of the article is used, either in rss feeds or in a timeline of blog posts

[MichaelWilliams-lrmb]

NixOS is a source based distro with a binary cache. It has become pretty popular.

[Crnobyl]

Binary packages would be a good way to rescue a system after installing GCC with botched compiler flags. A situation I was in once. Luckily I was able to install Arch to another drive and ran that for a time.

[model.citizen.ps]

I run Gentoo (ppc64) on my Playstation 3 (which I also use as a web server) and I think this is awesome news. A full fledged Gentoo install on PS3 can take several days, even with cross-compiling. Availability of more binary packages on Gentoo can make a big difference for people running hardware like mine, and can save us a great deal of time when (re)deploying. The PS3 takes about 4-6 hours to build a modern kernel (i'm on 6.6.8 right now). It can take almost 2 days to build gcc 13. For me thats a LOT of downtime! I'm big time in support of this development in Gentoo for sure. (Btw, its awesome u showed Immolo's wiki page on the PS2/Gentoo. Someone should really write one up for the PS3...) Anyway, cool video; good work 🙂

[opensauce]

This is amazing news for usability. It allows for saving a significant amount of time when updating packages without losing any of the flexibility of the USE flag system. As someone who uses a ThinkPad for work, I always wanted to use this distro as I had done on my desktop, but it was never viable. This is now a possibility, and I installed it to my root partition as soon as I heard the news

[kj_sh]

Hey Gentoo user here! have I talked to you about my compile flags yet? 😬😮‍💨🤪

[cameronbosch]

8:06 "Be like Starfield"


Shows picture of the Steam Award for Most Innovative Gameplay.

Me: Stop stop, they're already dead! 😂

[yamaddie]

gentoo, the coolest distro ill never use

[channel]

I'm considering trying it out because of this!

[wh]

2024 is the year brodie takes the nix pill, mark my words

[noooonotkobxl]

if they provide the Linux kernel binary, still going to compile my own kernel when installing. That's just how it's always been and provides the most "fun"

[FunkyELF]

Gentoo was my first real Linux distro. I ran it on my OG Xbox... was called gentoox. I did it so me and my roommates could have a dedicated Battlefield 1942 server running. We each had our own computers but if any of our computers was also the server we'd get high pings, having the OG Xbox run the server we had <5ms pings. Super stable, ran fine... only issue was it took a while to change maps, but once it was running everything was okay. Definitely used distcc to help speed things up. This was all while I was in college so I actually ran a full desktop w/ xfce, using VNC and everything to connect. It was my main development machine to do coding on.