Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 4:50 UTC (Tue) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by raven667
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Really, Gentoo is not like those other you list. It's not a distribution. It is a meta-distribution; a set of recipes for building binaries. It's not fair to lump them together, to either type.

Gentoo's primary reason for existence is to avoid the pitfalls that apparently have been plaguing binary distros for a decade. The task of proper dependency management is what Gentoo is just fantastic at accomplishing.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 8:28 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

:-)

I switched to gentoo, because when I was running the latest stable SuSE, I couldn't (for whatever reason) upgrade to the latest stable lilypond.

Now although I normally don't bother, I have full control if I need it ... (and I gather there are several linux developers who run gentoo, presumably for the same reason ...)

Cheers,
Wol

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 3, 2014 4:54 UTC (Wed) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link]

> I gather there are several linux developers who run gentoo

I know Greg KH is a long-time gentoo dev who runs it on servers and build machines; just curious what other kernel devs have mentioned running gentoo?