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There's a lot of Gentoo hate in this thread. I think that's funny when you consider that the most-used Linux distribution on desktop/laptop computers is based o
by nickysielicki 11y ago
There's a lot of Gentoo hate in this thread. I think that's funny when you consider that the most-used Linux distribution on desktop/laptop computers is based on Gentoo. [1]
Google chose engineers for ChromeOS, and those engineers chose Gentoo. CoreOS also uses portage IIRC. Gentoo isn't for everyone, but I think there's probably a correlation between people who have used Gentoo (or similar) at some point in their life and people who know Linux thoroughly.
[1]: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Chrome-OS-built-upon-Gentoo-and-not-the-more-popular-Debian https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Chrome-OS-built-upon-Gentoo-and...
- hexxeh 11y agoChromeOS originally was built upon Ubuntu, but Gentoo made more sense when starting to build for a rather diverse set of hardware, various flavours of ARM etc.