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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

submitted 10 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo stable, updated daily. Enjoy! And read on for more details!

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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I stopped using Gentoo because compiling everything was a major waste of time, but I have missed world files since then. This is a great reason to reconsider Gentoo for my next machine.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

FWIW, Alpine Linux has a nice world file, too. And I am continually impressed by the selection of up to date packages in their Edge repos.

[–] Drito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Alpine Linux is the most sane distro I tried. The absence of glibc brought limitations unfortunately, but it is the fault of developers that uses that shit instead of pure libc.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can the file be split into different files like in Gentoo? I used to have different files for basic stuff, gaming, hardware specific, etc, so I could keep the parts of the Configs I wanted from one machine to another.

If so I'll definitely check it out, been meaning to try Alpine since for what I understand it's not GNU, right? Which should put a final nail in the GNU+Linux copy pasta hahahah.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think apk would check multiple files for the world. But you could maintain them outside the apk mechanisms, just concatenating them into a single file, with tup/make/sh/whatever.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Makes sense, I actually have a tool for that sort of thing that I wrote for i3 configs (it's called CFC and it's here in case you want to use it https://gitlab.com/Nibodhika/cfc )