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  • Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on low-resource hardware or containers?

    From Matt Connell@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 01:30:01 2025
    On 03/06/2025 19.12, whiteman808 wrote:
    Where you wouldn't install Gentoo, even if you are Gentoo power users?

    If it has a fan on the CPU, its getting regular old Gentoo. I'm not
    compiling on anything with passive cooling; those get Debian. The SBCs
    I use to run Pi Hole come to mind.

    I haven't tried using Gentoo with a binpkg type setup, but maybe the
    next time I have to install Linux on something that's passively cooled.

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  • From whiteman808@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 01:20:01 2025
    Do you, Gentoo users use Gentoo on main desktop, server or do you have installed Gentoo system on low resource hardware like network appliances, netbooks, on dockers, lxc containers, virtual machines too?

    Where you wouldn't install Gentoo, even if you are Gentoo power users?

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  • From Matt Jolly@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 13:30:01 2025
    Hi,

    Do you, Gentoo users use Gentoo on main desktop, server or do you have installed Gentoo system on low resource hardware like network appliances, netbooks, on dockers, lxc containers, virtual machines too?

    I have built and run Gentoo on everything from risc-v single-board
    computers to x86_64 HPC nodes.

    I have used Kubler[1] to produce stripped-down, extremely customised, single-purpose containers (I think one of my production use cases is
    still in the wiki), and I have used catalyst to make custom images as
    required, most recently for WSL.
    Where you wouldn't install Gentoo, even if you are Gentoo power users?

    What's the point in using something other than Gentoo? It's customisable
    enough to bend into pretty much whatever shape I need, and now that we
    have binpkgs compilation time to initially setup a system is pretty much eliminated.

    Regards,

    Matt

    1: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kubler

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