• merlin@open-source.social
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    1 year ago

    FOSS isn’t about building from source though. It’s about making software accessible without restrictions on who uses it and how it’s used.

    By the way Gentoo is also giving you convenience compared to Slackware or building Linux from scratch.

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      1 year ago

      Ah, Slackware is such a beast. No dependency management! I wonder how someone would run Gentoo/Slackware as a daily driver, maybe I’m too noob for this

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t run Slackware in two decades, but back then it was sort of like, install almost everything (A, AP,N, etc) at once, have your home on a different partition and nuke-reinstall every four months.