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Gentoo rocks. Installing Gentoo is a wonderful learning experience and it's the most flexible distro out there -- especially if you need to run a patched userla
by plq 4y ago
Gentoo rocks. Installing Gentoo is a wonderful learning experience and it's the most flexible distro out there -- especially if you need to run a patched userland.
Not mentioned: Gentoo Prefix project is useful for managing a Gentoo installation that is at a path other than /. We use it for building our Linux development environment.
See [1] to give it a try. Warning! It will compile almost everything so it's going to take a bit of time!
[1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Bootstrap#Performing_a_Gentoo_Prefix_bootstrap_using_the_interactive_installer_.28recommended.29 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Bootstrap#Perfor...
- Szpadel 4y agoI tried to do something similar for building highly optimized and slimmed down (only use flags that are needed) for container images (installing with different root path) but got some library issues in resulting system and gave up. maybe I'll try the same with prefix. I'm curious if compiling everything with exact expected CPU and LTO would result in measurable performance gains.