Gentoo Linux

and yum is what they are on right now both are pretty much the same dnf's a little bit better about finding dependencies where yum is still a little bit older people have released like yum 4 that helps with that but overall i highly recommend just using dnf when you can if you're using fedora most of your install commands will be dnf and if you're using an older version of centos or redhat 7 and before it's all going to be um but um that's it for this branch i'm not going to mention any of these other distributions because i don't recommend any of them uh the only thing that i might pause to say is hey oracle linux that's interesting but not something i recommend someone doing it's going to be one out of maybe 100 businesses that are going to be running that um most of all this other stuff is all going to be your those three are the ones you need to learn everything else uh there might be the obscure business that uses it but for the most part nobody else is going to be messing with it and you shouldn't either these are the three you should stick stick to in this fork and if you're just getting into it and you want to learn enterprise linux stick with fedora tinker around a lot of people like to run it as its main thing on my work pc it's what i run i use fedora 29 i'm bleeding edge at work for this at home i use a deviant based system but this is what i'm using right now All right, let's jump into the final part I wanted to go over, Arch Linux.

Now, you're like, you're jumping right over Gentoo.

What's up with that? Well, it's kind of like a running joke.

It's like, hey, you must be a masochist if you use Gentoo.

because you have to install pretty much everything it's extremely modular which means it doesn't come loaded with anything you're installing from command line and then you're installing the display manager then you're installing the desktop and then you're installing like the clock or all kinds of crazy uh things in there so it's very very modular One use case for Gen2 would be if you were to build a specific Linux box to do one thing or two things and you only wanted to install those specific programs and you didn't need any of the other flair to go with it.

Gen2 would be an option in that case because it pretty much comes bare bones and you just build it up.

As soon as something gets into the state I've just said, you're exactly right, Joe.

They decide that actually, no, it doesn't need to be a fork of Gentoo that they polish.

It needs to be

Android.

I started out as a simple Slackware user back in the day, if you remember good old Slackware.

And so kind of played around with Slackware, BSD, and ports eventually got involved with Gentoo and became a contributor and maintainer there and maintained the Java and accessibility packages as part of Portage back in the day.

And that's kind of how I got started with my Linux journey.

I found the community so super helpful.

It literally does not matter for usability.

The only question is, how much do I want to have to learn how to use my computer? If the answer is, I want to learn how a computer works, I want to look at Task Manager and know 100% of the things that my computer is doing, then use Gentoo or Void, understanding that there is a higher, but not really that high anymore with chatbots learning curve.

If you want the onboarding to be fairly seamless, but you still have plenty of room to add your own tweaks, use CatchyOS with an X11 desktop environment.

No matter what, I would highly consider using a file system called a ZFS for space-efficient backups and disk encryption.

Void, Gentoo, and CatchyOS support ZFS en route.

You mentioned that you've been reading physics books because politics has gotten boring.

Maybe you've already read some CompSci stuff because you mentioned the null verse here on the Peace Code Debate Review, but if you haven't, I would suggest learning the C programming language.

On Ubuntu, you run apt install, and you get a binary that somebody else already built.

But Linux has this whole other tradition where the compilation happens on your machine, and Gentoo built an entire distribution around it.

And Daniel wants the real rationale, not the folklore.

He wants to know what actually happens when software gets compiled, what decisions get made in that process, and which of them touch performance, functionality, compatibility, security.

That's the right question to start with, because that assumption is doing a lot of quiet work.

Then the practical side.

If you run Gentoo, are you really sitting there compiling every package by hand, every update? How do dependencies, upgrades, security patches, and rebuilds actually get handled? Can the middle ground work where you're on Ubuntu, but you compile one or two things from source? Why does scientific computing and HPC still build from source so much? And finally, what do you actually lose? What's the maintenance burden? What are the security risks? And what do you give up by relying entirely on your distribution?

The whole thing comes down to one choice.

tidbit.

Gentoo, not going to build Chromium anymore.

So as a binary to hand out?

I don't even...

Exactly.

Right.

And I mean, everybody was mad about it, but now you got to be mad about Gentoo.

So Ubuntu's path was y'all make it.

I don't think this is a good thing for Linux at all and shame on DigitalOcean for making that sort of decision.

On that same note, Gentoo is apparently in trouble.

They used to run on that same sponsored infrastructure, not specifically DigitalOcean, but they used grants from hosting providers.

But sponsors have slowly backed out over the years and stopped contributing to the point that Gentoo is now asking for a little bit of help.

They say you can help them through donating machines in the US so they can be run as the project servers.

They will also accept any rack space complete with the power and connectivity that comes with it.