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Gentoo is hard but it pays off in tough situations. The benefit is more about elegant and efficient customization rather than performance. It's not for most sit
by mieses 13y ago
Gentoo is hard but it pays off in tough situations. The benefit is more about elegant and efficient customization rather than performance. It's not for most situations but I am very grateful that it exists and that I took the time to learn it.
- contingencies 13y agoThis matches my own experience. For example, I use it for custom diskless images that run with some fairly specific kernel features and init system customizations to support from-boot ethernet and switch redundancy via bonding at the same time as root on NFS (for cluster integrity, ie. split-brain avoidance, even in the event of system failure within switching fabric). I would hate to try doing that with mainstream distributions.