alt Hacker NewsThey basically started it all, that was what made Gentoo different from everyone else.
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p_l • yesterday at 8:43 PM
It also made it nice base for both ChromeOS and its descendants like COS and Flatpak (continuation of original CoreOS)
They basically started it all, that was what made Gentoo different from everyone else.
It also made it nice base for both ChromeOS and its descendants like COS and Flatpak (continuation of original CoreOS)
I wasn't there when it started but wasn't the raison d'etre was the GCC fork that eventually became the new upstream for GCC. Because the fork was faster Gentoo got the reputation that compiling from source was to get faster executable. This is a misunderstanding imho, as the greatest strength of Gentoo the level of customization enabled by use flags.