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Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by sekh60 »

Philpax wrote: post #45
Y_Y wrote: post #3

> The Gentoo Foundation took in $12,066 in fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025/06/30); the dominant part (over 80%) consists of individual cash donations from the community. On the SPI side, we received $8,471 in the same period as fiscal year 2025; also here, this is all from small individual cash donations. It's crazy how projects this large and influential can get by on so little cash. Of course a lot of people are dona…

...is Gentoo large and influential these days? As far as I'm aware, its current cultural status is that of a punchline, but I'm open to being corrected.

ChromeOS is based in Gentoo.

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by [deleted] »

mogwire wrote: post #50
dTal wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know that Red Hat is a positive force. They seem to be on a crusade to make the Linux desktop incomprehensible to the casual user, which I suppose makes sense when their bread and butter depends on people paying them to fix stuff, instead of fixing it themselves.

You don’t know they are a positive force? This, despite the fact that Rocky, Alma, Oracle Enterprise Linux, etc exist because of the hard work and money spent by Red Hat. And what are those companies doing to fix this issue you claim Red Hat causes? Nothing. Because they like money, especially when all you have to do is rebuild and put your name on other people’s hard work. And what exactly is incomprehensible? What…

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Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by ltbarcly3 »

Fiveplus wrote: post #9

For me, the most underrated takeaway here is the state of RISC-V support. While other distributions are struggling to bootstrap their package repositories for new ISAs and waiting for build farms to catch up, Gentoo's source based nature makes it architecture agnostic by definition. I applaud the risque team for having achieved parity with amd64 for the @system set. This proves that the meta-distribution model is the…

All distributions are source based and bootstrapped from source. They default to binary packages by default (while offering source packages) whereas Gentoo defaults to source packages (but still has binary packages). There's literally no advantage to Gentoo here. What you're saying doesn't even make logical sense.

Other distros don't support Risc-V because nobody has taken the time to bother with it because the hardware base is almost nonexistent.

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by CursedSilicon »

Philpax wrote: post #45
Y_Y wrote: post #3

> The Gentoo Foundation took in $12,066 in fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025/06/30); the dominant part (over 80%) consists of individual cash donations from the community. On the SPI side, we received $8,471 in the same period as fiscal year 2025; also here, this is all from small individual cash donations. It's crazy how projects this large and influential can get by on so little cash. Of course a lot of people are dona…

...is Gentoo large and influential these days? As far as I'm aware, its current cultural status is that of a punchline, but I'm open to being corrected.

Gentoo's Portage build system is (or at least was?) part of Google's ChromeOS

Gentoo also runs the backend infra of Sony's Playstation Cloud gaming service

Anecdotal evidence claims it used to also run the NASDAq

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by YarickR2 »

Reading this while doing emerge @world on my personal workstation, and preparing a fresh annual portage cut for our IT infrastructure (some 600+ VMs, 400+ bare metal servers), running Gentoo.

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by url00 »

malwrar wrote: post #66
raphinou wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you document this somewhere? I'm interested to know more

Nah, first time I’ve mentioned it anywhere. Happy to answer questions, if there’s interest maybe this could be my reason for a first blog post.

I would also be very interested in reading that blog post!

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by mirpa »

entropie wrote: post #20

2025 I switched to nixos and will probably stay. I used gentoo for like 20 years. Its the distro of my heart. With some notebooks, some of which were getting on in years, it was simply too resource-intensive to update. Only GHC, for example, often took 12+ hours to compile on some older notebooks.

I tried to list available packages on NixOS and nix-env consumed more than 6 GB Ram. Everyone told me not to use nix-env; everyone except NixOS manual. Trying to understand NixOS environment is a deep rabbit hole.

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by Crontab »

BeetleB wrote: post #63

Been running it for over 20 years: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/May/20-years-of-gentoo/ Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35989311 Edit: Curious, why the downvote?

> why the downvote?

I can see no reason for it.

Re: Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

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Post by kryptiskt »

kortilla wrote: post #76
Y_Y wrote: post #3

> The Gentoo Foundation took in $12,066 in fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025/06/30); the dominant part (over 80%) consists of individual cash donations from the community. On the SPI side, we received $8,471 in the same period as fiscal year 2025; also here, this is all from small individual cash donations. It's crazy how projects this large and influential can get by on so little cash. Of course a lot of people are dona…

The issue is that gentoo isn’t very popular in the industry. If it catches on with a few well funded tech companies, then it’s easy to get $10k or so from each one in sponsorships at conferences.

ChromeOS uses Gentoo as a base. That doesn't seem to have helped get them any Google money.
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