I meant to respond to the 1000 desktop comment as well... Honestly, unless there was a good reason not to, I'd probably use Ubuntu, Fedora or something similar, possibly a mix of a few options (user choice if we aren't talking about a "kiosk" type situation). For generic use, I'd want the least of ...

Go

The speed (nearly) of C with the ease of Python.

pjp wrote:Someone probably pitched the idea as an opportunity to nudge business use of CentOS into an RH license.

It worked with some companies I know. They are just going to abandon their CentOS7 servers and switch to RH before EOL.

that ^

RedHat killed off CentOS.

I didn't mean to cause any swapping (or hand sweating) about likeness between Gentoo vs CentOS; instead I meant my servers will need a new OS.

Good to hear about Portage reliability. There look to be more docs now too. Skimming through the Quick Install Checklist ...

I came to Gentoo from Sorcerer Linux, and my computer had a 1ghz Duron and enough ram to meet the Sorcerer Linux specs. Gentoo was more polished than Sorcerer, so I stuck with it. We did stage 1 tarballs back then, so we'd bootstrap and start building up the chain. I did like starting from stage 1 ...

That just means you're completely secure!

asturm wrote:

Zucca wrote:Rust and Go sound good.

Those two are representative of all that is wrong in today's programming world

What's wrong with Go?

I'm perfectly happy with Portage as is, but I'm just curious as to why you seem to dislike Go.

Tony0945 wrote:

Ant P. wrote:We could have an ArchLinux-style captcha (random obvious questions that take 5 seconds to answer, like "what name does Gentoo use for the arch commonly referred to as x86-64?")

I'll bite. What name DO we use?

amd64

He was beloved and universally praised. The world has lost a very kind man.

asturm wrote:

Muso wrote:The link you provided (from Mother Jones no less ) is from 2019.

Yeah, it's still accurate.

No, it is not. Read the link in the OP.

User: [profile=8506]Muso[/profile]
Topic: [topic=1108676]Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother[/topic]
Post: [post]8422580[/post]
Reason: Another disgusting alt-right smear spreading in OTW.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/ilhan-omar-brother-marriage-smear/

The link you provided (from ...

unheatedgarage wrote:"swarm intelligence"

What a superb term!

Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and Kali Linux.

Arch for general purpose laptops, FreeBSD on a very old laptop (all of the hardware works in FreeBSD), and Kali on a Laptop and VM inside of my Gentoo desktop. Kali is just focused on pentesting and forensics, and it's the best of the 'security' distros because ...

Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and Kali Linux.

Arch for general purpose laptops, FreeBSD on a very old laptop (all of the hardware works in FreeBSD), and Kali on a Laptop and VM inside of my Gentoo desktop. Kali is just focused on pentesting and forensics, and it's the best of the 'security' distros because ...

Ant P has a valid point. If you look at the kali forums it's full up of newbs who don't even understand partitioning (thanks a lot, Mr Robot).

On Linux, Gimp & KDEnLive. On windows, the same (if you want free) or Adobe's Photoshop & After Effects.

You could just write a script to make lynx or surf to hit the page over and over again when you aren't using your computers.

When looking for terminals :
Then use eix for details.

Just my $0.02, but XFS was one of the filesystems which caused me data loss from a power outage. The other was JFS.

If gentoo is slower than clear Linux then I want to know how much.
If it's faster than than Ubuntu and Arch I want to test see the difference.

Is GentooLTO any quicker - I want to see if it's worth it.

For me, it's a matter of control. I like what portage provides and how I can tune my system ...

As Juippisi has stated. Maybe look for a new WM/DE that is more actively maintained?

pjp wrote:

Muso wrote:>Google

ftfy

True. SearX is also pretty decent.

I always keep my data in a separate partition (synced with another) have at least two different OS's installed.

Which on the main desktop machine are Calculate and Manjaro, derivatives of Gentoo and Arch, respectively.

Calculate is the most stable and is nothing more than an overlay of Gentoo ...

The moderators have a hard enough time cleaning up spam posts, if img tags were enabled they'd have to spend even more time getting rid of dodgy "adult" images some would spam across the forums.

If you need to link a screenshot, just host it on a 3rd party website and use the url tags to link it in ...

I prefer arch on laptops. Desktops and servers are where Gentoo reign supreme.