What’s the reason for Gentoo having so few distros based on him compared to other distro families?

  • mad_asshatter
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    616 months ago

    There are hundreds of Gentoo-based distos out there.

    None of them have finished compiling yet.

  • @KISSmyOSFeddit
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    286 months ago

    It’s pointless to make a derivative distro if the base is already perfect.

  • @kuneho
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    86 months ago

    I guess kinda the same reason why there are not many distros based on Slackware.

      • @kuneho
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        6 months ago

        Both of them is about customization. Hard. I don’t think there’s two similar Slack or gentoo installation. So, for me, at least, it feels there’s really no need distributions of those. Maybe it’s just by definition, though.

        Idk man, just wanted to look smart.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 months ago

    Because Genthree Genfour Genfive Gensix, etc. would get confused with other products on a Google search.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    I think it’s somewhere around 15 derivates for Gentoo. 1 2

    It’s about the same number as lots of other distros?! I don’t see any substancial difference there. Except when you compare it to something like Debian. There are some hugely popular distros.

  • @[email protected]
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    16 months ago

    People make new distros based on existing distros to alter the software stack in the original distro. Gentoo allows you to use essentially whatever software stack you feel like, it’s less of a traditional distro and more of a general-purpose Linux package manager and dependency resolver. It’s not very opinionated at all.