Up and running.

USE="-systemd"

This is a comfy home system/media server. You might want to re-check
that impression of Gentoo. Precompiled kernels and packages eased
installation considerably.

Of course, I'm only 75. It might get harder to do this when I get old.



On 4/4/24 23:36, Steve Litt wrote:
> Richard Doyle via Dng said on Thu, 4 Apr 2024 08:01:22 -0700
>
>> On 4/4/24 06:20, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 11:39:48 +0200, Didier wrote in message
>>> <ef1c5884-d02c-4c3c-9431-960f92dd1a02@???>:
>>>
>>>
>>> ..so here, you are a subversive systemd fanboi?
>>>
>>
>> And with that, I'm off to Gentoo
>
> Gentoo's pretty good, but when I evaluated it I found it too much
> trouble to keep running. Be sure to take extra care when compiling the
> kernel at the very end. I'd advise doing it on a VM set to the kind of
> hardware you use, because doing it that way is MUCH faster, and if
> you're like me you'll blow the first several installation attempts.
>
> Also, consider Funtoo.
>
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