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    From rapler@VERT/BACKWOOD to All on Wed Jul 8 19:05:10 2026
    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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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to rapler on Thu Jul 9 09:31:24 2026
    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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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to rapler on Thu Jul 9 11:31:54 2026
    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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  • From Neko@VERT/MIYANET to rapler on Thu Jul 9 23:53:44 2026
    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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  • From Myth@VERT/CONCHAOS to phigan on Sun Jul 12 15:50:04 2026
    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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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Myth on Sun Jul 12 16:00:33 2026
    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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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to PHIGAN on Sat Jul 25 21:00:00 2026
    I tried out CachyOS on my laptop. Three
    separate times the installation got
    broken after an upgrade and wouldn't
    I tried CachyOS under a VM and it did not work well :(

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Matthew Munson on Sun Jul 26 08:21:02 2026
    Matthew Munson wrote to PHIGAN <=-

    I tried out CachyOS on my laptop. Three
    separate times the installation got
    broken after an upgrade and wouldn't

    I tried CachyOS under a VM and it did not work well :(

    What does that mean? What didn't work well?

    Sounds like operator error (for both of you).



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  • From Timex@VERT/VINTAGE to phigan on Tue Nov 10 20:04:00 2026
    phigan wrote to rapler <=-

    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.

    ....because if they did that, they'd have Slackware.

    I cut my eye teeth on Slackware, back with kernel version 0.99pl10. I've done exactly what you're suggesting, and quite frankly it was a pain even then. There's a reason they call it "Dependency Hell".

    At the risk of saying something you're already aware of, the point of Gentoo recompiling anything wasn't to keep things current (although that does happen), as much as optimizing the binaries for the system they will be expected to run on. The original binaries are only supposed to be enough to get on started.


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