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! And read on for more details!

  • @[email protected]
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    6911 months ago

    To think the day Gentoo goes binary would finally come…

    Next: Slackware get automatic dependency resolution

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      • @SuperIce
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        811 months ago

        That’s such a funny way to handle dependencies. No need for dependency management if you just install every single package.

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    • Jears
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      111 months ago

      Well we’ve had binary packages for ages for big builds like firerox and default is still to use source packages.

      Still I’m really excited for this, having the whole, or big parts of the package tree, will speed up initial installations by a lot on weak arm systems for example. Now initial installation can be done quick and later you could still compile stuff yourself for the full gentoo experience.