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    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

    Also the additional flavours of

    • Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file
    • Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer
    • Alpine – small and simple
    • Slackware? – for old people
    • Void?? – like Alpine but not small and simple
    • LFS??? – like Gentoo but takes longer
    • AOSP???? – not even really Linux anymore
    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer

    Supports full binary versions since december 2023.

    Slackware? – for old people

    Aka people who know what they're doing and what they want, noted.

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Yes, that's pretty much what I said but more accurate and less funny

    [–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I've always wondered what the use case for Gentoo-but-binary is. I'm sure there is one, I just can't think of one.

    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Lazy people who wanna pretend they run gentoo? Dunno either...

    [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Adding a binary package host allows Portage to install cryptographically signed, compiled packages. In many cases, adding a binary package host will greatly decrease the mean time to package installation and adds much benefit when running Gentoo on older, slower, or low power systems.

    [–] ragas@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Gentoo really has nothing to do with arch. Gentoo in my opinion is more like Debian with compiling and rolling release.

    And what about Fedora? Last I checked it was wildly popular.

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Gentoo is just frequently cited as the "next step up" from Arch and also funny.

    And Fedora is bucketed into the Red Hat flavour.

    [–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

    * Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

    You also have a hardware-configuration.nix by default but shhhhh...

    [–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    • Void - the most BSD Linux (according to BSD people)
    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    the most BSD Linux

    Try CRUX.

    (Or KISS/Carbs, Side, Parch, Aeryn, Shebang, ... and there are other new ones I've forgot the name of, that have either BSD userland or BSD style ports packaging systems).

    I don't know which is "the most BSD Linux", but I suspect "BSD people" may not be the most familiar with the distroverse, having their own things to tend to.

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    ...having their own things to tend to.

    "NetBSD!" "No, OpenBSD!" "No, FreeBSD!"