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Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

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To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo stable, updated daily. Enjoy! And read on for more details!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo "purist": "Welp, Gentoo is now officially dead."

Non-gentoo user: "Welp, Gentoo is now just another Arch fork LMAO!"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Non-gentoo user: “Welp, Gentoo is now just another Arch fork LMAO!”

To be fair, you can still build packages and fine-tune the builds with the Emerge system flags, which is sort-of Gentoo's killer feature. It is just that they have recognized that most people will install probably 99% of all software without changing the default flags, and so why not give them those packages pre-built.

So I guess this make Gentoo more similar to Nix OS or Guix OS but without the high-tech package manager and dependency resolution.