[HN Gopher] Making the Distribution, Part 1
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       Making the Distribution, Part 1
        
       Author : badrabbit
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2023-09-09 15:29 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | ranoutofid wrote:
       | Very interesting read. The author's thoughts as he went through
       | the development process are really interesting - I especially
       | liked the part where he went to BSD and came back. I wonder if
       | all Linux distros come up the way that the author describes for
       | Gentoo.
        
       | wolf550e wrote:
       | > Right now, we're at the verge of releasing Gentoo Linux 1.0 (it
       | may be available by the time you read this article on
       | developerWorks.) But what does the future hold?
       | 
       | Gentoo 1.0 was released in 2002.
        
       | techcode wrote:
       | Having started with Linux using Gentoo - after some attempted
       | excursions into Debian/Ubuntu, then at work CentOS and even few
       | months of having to use Slackware on servers until I finally
       | convinced my boss that his T50-something Thinkpad will do same or
       | better on Gentoo ... (and he won't need to manually chase up
       | dependencies).
       | 
       | And even thought already for years compiling most of the things
       | doesn't take that long. Just for not having to compile bunch of
       | packages where I'm using standard/default config - I've tried
       | Sabayon (back when it was still almost kind of Gentoo), went back
       | to Gentoo ...
       | 
       | And then for almost a decade now - I've been extremely happy with
       | https://www.calculate-linux.org/
        
       | elromulous wrote:
       | This was a fun read.
       | 
       | It took me down a nostalgic path of installing Gentoo on some
       | old, barely functioning pentium 2 circa 2002. Compiling X and
       | Gnome took literally days!
        
         | glouwbug wrote:
         | My new hobby is running and maintaining a console build on my
         | T43 which is basically a Pentium 3. I use it for hobby
         | programming (vim + gcc) and I appreciate the machine slowing
         | down when I make a mistake
        
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