Gentoo Goes Binary

Gentoo goes Binary! Dec 29, 2023 You probably all know Gentoo Linux as your favourite source-based distribution. Did you know that our package manager, Portage, already for years also has support for binary packages, and that source- and binary-based package installations can be freely mixed? To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo stable, updated daily. Enjoy!

A screenshot of a Gentoo Linux webpage announcing that Gentoo is going binary, with a cow surrounded by colorful gift boxes and a shopping bag. The joke is that Gentoo is famous for source-based compilation and manual customization, so offering binary packages feels like an ironic betrayal of its identity. It is used as a reaction to Gentoo becoming more convenient and less hardcore. EN: A screenshot of a Gentoo Linux webpage announcing that Gentoo is going binary, with a cow surrounded by colorful gift boxes and a shopping bag. The joke is that Gentoo is famous for source-based compilation and manual customization, so offering binary packages feels like an ironic betrayal of its identity. It is used as a reaction to Gentoo becoming more convenient and less hardcore.

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