hello all, this is my first time in a bbs, i just whanted to say that gentoo is great and that rapler was here :D take car and retro tech for life, stay safe

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Re: leaving a mark
By: rapler to All on Wed Jul 08 2026 19:05:10

Take car...

I'll have a Ferrari.

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Re: leaving a mark
By: rapler to All on Wed Jul 08 2026 07:05 pm

hello all, this is my first time in a bbs, i just whanted to say that gentoo great and that rapler was here :D take car and retro tech for life, stay saf

It's probably an unpopular opinion, but if you're going to go as far as using gentoo, you may as well just get all the source yourself to compile. With gentoo, you're getting the source packages from gentoo... why not just get it from "the source" ? :). I like the idea behind gentoo, but it'd be better if it grabbed source packages from the official distribution sites. Which I know isn't really feasible with so many different packages, because you know at some point it will break. It takes like two weeks to get a full system up and going for me that way, but it really does run nice when you just build everything yourself.

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Re: leaving a mark
By: rapler to All on Wed Jul 08 2026 19:05:10

hello all, this is my first time in a bbs, i just whanted to say that gentoo is great and that rapler was here :D take car and retro tech for life, stay safe

Greetings, have fun!

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Re: leaving a mark
By: phigan to rapler on Thu Jul 09 2026 11:31 am

Yeah thats https://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Ran gentoo many years ago for quite a while until emerge became fun no more. Play with it long enough and you will have major problems. Good way to learn though. If you just want a distro with architecture optimized binaries try cachyos instead. Its on my list to play with sometime.
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Re: leaving a mark
By: Myth to phigan on Sun Jul 12 2026 03:50 pm

cachyos instead. Its on my list to p
with sometime.

I tried out CachyOS on my laptop. Three
separate times the installation got
broken after an upgrade and wouldn't
boot. After the third time, I said
screw it and just installed Ubuntu
Server. Then added openbox and some
other GUI components manually.

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