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     Re: Re: Great!   
     By: Gerrit Kuehn to Richard Falken on Sun Jan 03 2021 09:13 pm   
      
    > Hello Richard!   
    >    
    > 03 Jan 21 13:00, Richard Falken wrote to Dan Clough:   
    >    
    >  RF> but I am   
    >  RF> not a fan of Debian and derivatives. Gentoo is just too time   
    >  RF> consuming to set   
    >  RF> up.   
    >    
    > Gentoo setup can be sped up by using orchestration tools, but I see your poi   
    > I've been using Sabayon Linux in these cases (Gentoo with installer and bina   
    > packages). However, they are rebranding the project these days, so I wouldn'   
    > use it for new installations.   
    > Their new Mocaccino OS is joined by Funtoo folks. Don't know how long they'l   
    > take to get this new beast production-ready, but it certainly looks like   
    > interesting technology to me:   
    > http://www.sabayon.org/article/joining-funtoo/   
    > http://www.sabayon.org/article/sabayon-is-rebranding/   
    > https://www.mocaccino.org/   
    >    
    >    
    > Regards,   
    > Gerrit   
    >    
    > ...  9:13PM  up 75 days,  8:14, 8 users, load averages: 0.29, 0.29, 0.25   
      
   Thanks for dropping by.   
      
   I am aware of Sabayon and Funtoo, but Mocaccino was under my radar.   
      
   My main concern with source based distributions is running them in adverse   
   conditions - places with no Internet, bad Internet, or limited data plans.   
   Specially if you have fleets of machines in office. Imagine if you have an   
   office with 20 computers and a data plan that tops at 5 GB for all of them.   
   Hint: this is not a theoretical scenario.   
      
   You can use build hosts in and out of premises, but setting these things up   
   can be such a burden :-( Specially if your computer fleet is not homogeneous.   
      
   What I like of Slackware is that the core system is binary, so you can get your   
   upgrades to the base system out of the premises with limited Internet and bring   
   them in with a pen drive. Building your own packages home for unofficial pkgs   
   and taking them into office is also trivial. Same goes for OpenBSD - which also   
   offers binary builds for the popular software in the ports tree anyway.   
      
   Most Linux distributions are not designed for offline use, which can be really   
   troublesome.   
      
      
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