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...is Gentoo large and influential these days? As far as I'm aware, its current cultural status is that of a punchline, but I'm open to being corrected.
by Philpax 9mo ago
...is Gentoo large and influential these days? As far as I'm aware, its current cultural status is that of a punchline, but I'm open to being corrected.
- c-hendricks 9mo agoAlso curious of Gentoo's influence in 2026.
- CursedSilicon 9mo agoGentoo's Portage build system is (or at least was?) part of Google's ChromeOS Gentoo also runs the backend infra of Sony's Playstation Cloud gaming service Anecdotal evidence claims it used to also run the NASDAq
- Thaxll 9mo agoHighly unlikely that PSN runs Gentoo. They're using AWS.
- malern 9mo agoI've no idea if Sony uses Gentoo or not, but you can definitely run Gentoo on AWS
- jayofdoom 9mo agoOP's statement matches my understanding; parts were gentoo-based at one point.
- CursedSilicon 9mo agoNot PSN. Sony's Cloud Gaming service. Where they stream an entire PlayStation console to you
- hobobaggins 9mo agoYep. Gaikai.
- sekh60 9mo agoChromeOS is based in Gentoo.
- nextos 9mo agoYes, Gentoo is like NixOS, sort of a meta-distribution. Being the base of ChromeOS makes it highly influential. ChromeOS market share is >5% in many countries, sometimes around double digits.
- jayofdoom 9mo agoGentoo is often at the forefront of identifying and helping resolve integration issues between different software projects, particularly when it comes to compiler tech (e.g. fixing packages so they can be built properly with LTO, or with LLVM as well as GCC) or other backend-detail-minutia which makes the whole system better without always being visible to the end user.