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I successfully installed Gentoo for the first time today! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not much. Updates take a bit longer because you're compiling, although Gentoo now has an official binary package host if you want to skip that step - you'll only compile things that you've changed compile-time features to the extent that they don't match the binhost now!

You don't need to constantly tinker to keep the system running, at least, news is good for major changes, and we have a good 'config file changed' system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gentoo now has an official binary package host

With some limitations:

The binhost packages have the USE flags set as in an unmodified 17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd profile (with the exception of USE=bindist). The packages can be used on all amd64 profiles that differ from desktop/plasma/systemd only by USE flag settings. This includes 17.1, 17.1/desktop/*, 17.1/no-multilib, 17.1/systemd, but not anything containing selinux, hardened, developer, musl, or a different profile version such as 17.0.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm not talking about the experimental one. Keep an eye on news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't seen any news about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't have anything concrete to point you at, only conversations with developers, but the binhost project seems to have produced an official binhost that is just pending documentation and the formal announcement. :)

Edit: There's a cool graph here that seems to line up with when I figure the non-experimental binhost started coming online with package numbers and things: https://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/mirrors/binpackages-month.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's official now. ;)