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submitted 1 year ago by H2207@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[-] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

USE flags and profiles.

I have one old laptop where I decided to test some more obscure Gentoo setups. I chose musl as libc and took llvm toolchain to compile stuff. (All experimental)

[-] Laser@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

It's honestly cool stuff, but I don't think a lot of people actually actively want that.

I tried something similar with Exherbo once but couldn't get it to boot after installation, I don't remember the specifics but I tried using libressl instead of openssl.

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