Subj : BSD-Like Linux distributions
To   : Arelor
From : DaiTengu
Date : Fri Oct 23 2020 12:42 am

 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 just have to keep up with them. Like right now I'm stuck, because I have some old software 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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