alt Hacker News...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.
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jayofdoom • today at 12:56 AM
Gentoo 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.
c-hendricks • yesterday at 4:17 PM
Also curious of Gentoo's influence in 2026.
Gentoo'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