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On 6/7/21 2:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:10 AM n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. |
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> Uh, you might want to read up more on what ChromeOS is. While you can |
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> in theory run it on anything, it is designed basically to power |
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> Chromebooks. It is closer to something like Android than something |
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> like Ubuntu/etc. |
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>> Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities? |
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> Yes. Emphasis on "basic." |
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>> I see that there's some concentration on a special browser, but I'd be running Firefox and FVWM anyway. |
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> If you want to run anything other than Chrome, good luck. Maybe you |
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> could get Firefox to run. Running fvwm is going to be much harder to |
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> pull off. Really at that point I'm not sure why you'd even start with |
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> ChromeOS since running Chrome with their special DE is the entire |
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> point of the distro. |
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>> Do they use portage and source packages? |
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> Yes and yes. However, the build system doesn't install portage, so |
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> you can't do updates using portage. The OS is designed to be packaged |
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> as a read-only system image and updates are performed by updating the |
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> system image. It is a completely non-traditional distro. |
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>> Do they push down every single upstream modification, like gentoo does, or maybe have a bit of hysteresis? |
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> I imagine the upstream repo has a big emphasis on security updates, |
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> but probably doesn't stay current on every little library. Just look |
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> at Chrome and the state of its own bundled libs if you use the |
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> upstream repo (which Gentoo goes to a lot of work to strip out). |
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> Really, if you want to run ChromeOS just go buy a Chromebook for $150. |
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> Trying to roll your own is great if you want to experiment, but it |
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> definitely isn't doing things "the easy way." |
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Okay, good info, thank you. |