Why “Gentoo” is being discussed
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once ? You obviously weren't using it long! All sorts of portage tree screwups would affect you periodically that weren't your fault. Details escape me, it just happened, my rec…
by contingencies · Oct 16, 2026
Looked in to ZFS snapshots and pretty sure I had it working for awhile, the challenge was the boot sequence required for a custom kernel and rootfs was pretty non-transparent wh…
by contingencies · Oct 16, 2026
Currently exploring a return to Gentoo here, for "reasons". My solution for a while (even before Gentoo) has been < https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ung…
by codebooks · Oct 16, 2026
> All I can say is that Gentoo specifically forbids downgrading glibc. Nope. You're protected from accidentally doing it, not forbidden. Look: # I_ALLOW_TO_BREAK_MY_SYSTEM=yes e…
by simoncion · Oct 16, 2026
Yep. A dumb-as-rocks tinderbox can do the task of "build the thing in all valid configurations". Good luck getting the hardware needed to do all that testing in a timely manner…
by simoncion · Oct 16, 2026
> Upstream is just giving them software for free on an as-is basis. While the "we're entitled to bugfixes" attitude is definitely annoying for software maintainers to deal with,…
by rmunn · Oct 16, 2026
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Gentoo may refer to:Gentoo penguin, a species of bird. Gentoo Linux, a computer operating system distribution named after the penguin. Gentoo, a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems. Gentoo (term), an alternative, archaic name of the Telugu language, or a historical, archaic term for Hindus. Gentoo Code, a document translated from Sanskrit regarding inheritance laws in Hinduism. Gentoo Media, an affiliate marketing company based in Malta. Read more on Wikipedia