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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Gentoo is still around‽ But Arch exists and eMachines was discontinued like 10 years ago!

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I know this is probably sarcastic but honestly Gentoo's great if you don't trust binaries by default. Nothing is an absolute guarantee against compromise, but it's an awful lot harder to compromise a source code repository or a compiler without anyone noticing (especially if you stick to stable versions) than it is to compromise a particular binary of some random software package. I trust most package maintainers, but they're typically overworked volunteers and not all of them are going to have flawless security or be universally trustworthy.

I like building my own binaries from source code whenever possible.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Genuine question from a longtime Linux user who never tried Gentoo - doesn't updating take forever? I used a source build of firefox for a bit and the build took forever, not to mention the kernel itself

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The long update has the advantage of providing an opportunity to touch grass.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

touch grass is literally a one-liner, cmon bro

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