Re: BSD-Like Linux distributions
By: Arelor to DaiTengu on Wed Oct 21 2020 05:53 pm
Ar> Thanks for the tip.
Ar> I have actually been looking at Gentoo. I don't like the fact everything
Ar> is rolling, and compiling everything seems too time consuming. It is the
Ar> sort of thing that would work if you had 50 identical computers, though.
Ar> You could build a package compiling cluster and then deploy packages to
Ar> all your machines. I used to do that with OpenBSD since it comes with the
Ar> software required to set a compilation cluster by default :-)
Yeah, Gentoo has distcc. I've always wanted to stand it up on a small cluster
at work. Now that we're getting a bunch of dual-CPU AMD EPYC 64-core boxes (for
a total of 256 CPUs per server with AMD's version of hyperthreading enabled). I
wonder how long it would take to compile something like KDE with distcc across
a dozen of those machines....
Ar> Void Linux is also interesting, but it is also rolling.
Not something I've ever looked into. I'm not against rolling releases, you jus
t have to keep up with them. Like right now I'm stuck, because I have some old s
oftware on my Gentoo box, and it really wants to rip Python 2.7 out of my system
. So I need to find a workaround.
DaiTengu
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