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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Let's be honest, real nerds use Gentoo

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Better start compiling now so its ready by October

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I started my Gentoo compile in 2008. It should be ready by next October.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I did it on sparc way back in the day, took a solid week. Once was enough

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Old news, gentoo has binary packages as an option

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's the point of using Gentoo if you don't compile?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You don't have to choose between binary and source, you can get some pre-compiled packages that you don't care about, but e.g. run a custom kernel at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

a good starter distro but ideally you should make your own from scratch so you know what's in it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly you're not a real one until you've written your own kernel entirely

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You guys would have deployed your own internet protocol if this conversation continued

[–] Cethin 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Writing your own internet protocol is a good idea but you shouldn't stop there. You need to run your own internet cables too to make sure it does what you want and isn't controlled by someone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And develop your own plastic to cover the cables?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And what are you going to cover with it if you haven’t even started mining your copper and inventing a machine to make your fiber optics.

Wait, maybe we need to start with the electromagnetic spectrum in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Linux has a good starter kernel but ideally you should

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

(I wish I was that advanced, maybe some day.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Weird way to spell NixOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not really any harder then Arch if you know about how linux systems work and didn't just copy paste or script your entire arch installation.