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[–] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

Also the additional flavours of

  • Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file
  • Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer
  • Alpine – small and simple
  • Slackware? – for old people
  • Void?? – like Alpine but not small and simple
  • LFS??? – like Gentoo but takes longer
  • AOSP???? – not even really Linux anymore
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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Gentoo really has nothing to do with arch. Gentoo in my opinion is more like Debian with compiling and rolling release.

    And what about Fedora? Last I checked it was wildly popular.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer

    Supports full binary versions since december 2023.

    Slackware? – for old people

    Aka people who know what they're doing and what they want, noted.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I've always wondered what the use case for Gentoo-but-binary is. I'm sure there is one, I just can't think of one.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Adding a binary package host allows Portage to install cryptographically signed, compiled packages. In many cases, adding a binary package host will greatly decrease the mean time to package installation and adds much benefit when running Gentoo on older, slower, or low power systems.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)
    • Void - the most BSD Linux (according to BSD people)
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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    the most BSD Linux

    Try CRUX.

    (Or KISS/Carbs, Side, Parch, Aeryn, Shebang, ... and there are other new ones I've forgot the name of, that have either BSD userland or BSD style ports packaging systems).

    I don't know which is "the most BSD Linux", but I suspect "BSD people" may not be the most familiar with the distroverse, having their own things to tend to.

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