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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 1:20 pm Post subject: Information about Gentoo |
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Hi everyone,
I’m working on a website that’s a mix between distrowatch.com and linuxtracker.org.
I’ve been trying to find as much information about Gentoo, to fill out its page on my website, linuxpeer.org.
- Which desktop environments are available? Do I have the correct ones listed on the page?
- Some nice screenshots of the desktop(s)? Maybe some users here would like to share some for the page.
- List of releases?
- Anything else I might have forgotten?
It is also possible for an endorsed user from Gentoo to help keep the page up-to-date, if that’s of any interest.
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 1:29 pm Post subject: Re: Information about Gentoo |
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| linuxpeer.org wrote: | | - Which desktop environments are available? Do I have the correct ones listed on the page? |
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
| linuxpeer.org wrote: | | - Some nice screenshots of the desktop(s)? Maybe some users here would like to share some for the page. |
https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/screenshots/
| linuxpeer.org wrote: | | - List of releases? |
There is not release because gentoo is rolling release, but you can find livecd from all arch in download page
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linuxpeer.org,
You are missing arm64 from your list of arches.
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | linuxpeer.org,
You are missing arm64 from your list of arches. |
also "OS" should contain BSD
Also package format.... the package manager is portage, the package format is ebuild
dpkg is to deb as ebuild is to portage
Also Openbox isn't a "Desktop manager" it is a window manager WHICH can be used on its own or as part of a larger desktop ( LXDE uses openbox for its windowmanager)
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| There's a lot missing from that site. I get 78 hits just searching for `eix -cRC x11-wm`, yet the site only lists six of those for Gentoo and less than half that number total. |
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Information about Gentoo |
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Thank you! That was just what I was looking for
| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
You are missing arm64 from your list of arches. |
I have been pondering if I should just have "ARM" as an overall category or have every ARM variant out there. I don't want it to be confusing for new users to Linux/BSD/etc..
| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
Also package format.... the package manager is portage, the package format is ebuild |
Fixed 
| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
Also Openbox isn't a "Desktop manager" it is a window manager. |
I know. It's called "desktop environment". I know I could separate the two, but I would like to have environments and managers under the same category for the sake of simplicity.
| Ant P. wrote: | | There's a lot missing from that site. I get 78 hits just searching for `eix -cRC x11-wm`, yet the site only lists six of those for Gentoo and less than half that number total. |
Not sure I understand what you mean. Of course information is missing. That's why I'm here 
If you want, you can help keep the site up-to-date. |
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linuxpeer.org,
if you fix your attributions above, I'll delete. this text.
For arm, look at the various stage3 tarballs that Gentoo provides.
If they are different enough to need their own sjage3, they are different enough to be listed separately on your website.
If you combine 32 bit and 64 bit arm, you may as well combine 32 bit and 64 bit Intel too.
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 8:22 am Post subject: Re: Information about Gentoo |
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| linuxpeer.org wrote: | - Which desktop environments are available? Do I have the correct ones listed on the page?
- Some nice screenshots of the desktop(s)? Maybe some users here would like to share some for the page.
- List of releases?
- Anything else I might have forgotten? |
linuxpeer.org ... not forgotten, but are assuming, the above reads as though what distinguishes a distribution is the DE and/or what it might look like, and not what it allows the user to do. I'm probably safe in saying that no one uses gentoo because x,y,z is on offer, but because they are provided the flexibility to make decisions that are normally made by "the distribution". No two gentoo installs are alike, and for that reason we are one of the last vestiges of such "software freedom", I say "last vestiges" because what seems to be happening in the wider linux ecosystem is the "push [...] to standardize on the same components for the base system", or in other words removing the user from the equation, everything is to be decided by the distribution/upstream. So, that is what distinguishes gentoo, not what can be captured in a screenshot.
best ... khay |
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| A more meaningful statistic would be what init systems the distro permits. |
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