Gentoo ranked #1 power user distro by Tech Radar

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

It's from February. I just saw it. Sorry if it's already been posted.

chithanh · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:39 am Post subject:

Interesting comparison, maybe a little superficial.

But that website craps on their visitors, ads and nag screens galore. Don't visit this without an ad blocker.
My browser went to 100% CPU utilization just from opening that page.

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

Oops, I didn't notice; I use a good blocker.

R0b0t1 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 264

1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

I just lost a lot of respect for techradar. My company uses it for some things, but generally with the tools we pay attention to they have a useful article about what the product is, where it's going and why it's important.

This article is a travesty.

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

You're right. To heck with this, I'm going back to Fedora. Thanks for clearing things up for me.

szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3137

Oh my, they find it amazing that some IT dinosaurs (hint: we) set hostname from command line. So PRO of us, indeed :lol:

Well, I see I wasn't the only one disappointed with overall quality of the article.

Yamakuzure · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:25 am Post subject:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Gentoo Chat.
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nicop06 · n00b Joined: 25 May 2017 Posts: 13 Location: France

Fedora is a distribution for power user? I thought it was the beginners distribution of Red Hat... But I can be wrong.

Anyway, too bad they didn't mention Alpine (Musl and Openrc based distribution) and Void Linux (Runit based distribution). Both are minimalist yet powerful distributions. Not as customizable as Gentoo but at least as powerful as Debian (for Alpine) and Arch (for Void).

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

Thank you for sharing your insights.

1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

I thought Redhat was essentially a testing version of RHEL. I was on Redhat before they went public, and the buzz then was that Fedora was supposed to be a relatively normal distro, supported by Redhat.

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

I thought RHEL was just a testing distro for CentOS.

monsieurp · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2015 Posts: 4

Gentoo = best Linux distro. Full stop.

LdBeth · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2017 Posts: 16 Location: 浙江

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

Linux is just a collection of dependencies for systemd.

vaxbrat · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs

For a while it seemed Fedora was the altenative for folk who didn't want to wait for things to get into the current rhel/centos/whatever release. So I had to deal with hardening it for our partners who needed newer toolchains. The only trouble is that the US govt customers now only will "certify" systems that continue to receive at least security updates. Because Fedora support lasts only 6 months (ie only the current release), it would take too long to get a version certified. By the time you got one blessed, the new release would be out and you would have to start the paperwork all over again

Thankfully I can still get away with Gentoo even though it is a meta distribution.

1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569