What does Zig Forums think of Funtoo?

Can one install Gentoo with genkernel as their first installation and later go through the configuration in the same installation, just changing the kernel?

ok hagcuck

of course, you can even use binary kernel
however, genkernel really enables lots of extra configs, lengthening compile time

gentoo can use git too though, no?

It's Gentoo with some very specific quirks and less dev time allocated to it. I used it in the past and as my first "Gentoo" system for a few years before migrating the config to Gentoo when some annoyances turned up.
The biggest difference for most newish Gentoo users is splitting the Gentoo portage tree into a bunch of independent overlays called kits so you have some semblance of a versioned distro. There's also some shortcuts for setting up a new system, like the simpler network configuration and the defaulting to a Debian kernel.
It sounds nice on paper but for a desktop/workstation system it just means you're using Gentoo with slightly outdated packages and a much, much smaller support base. I think it's better suited as an more conveniently deployed (over Gentoo) VM distro for specific applications.

Yes but on a new installation you'll have to emerge-webrsync first, emerge git and then change repos.conf to use git, maybe nuke the rsynced tree first also. Not sure if Funtoo has commit signature verification but on Gentoo it's advisable to enable via 'sync-git-verify-commit-signature = true' in repos.conf.

Funtoo has preset use flags if you don't want to configure every binary. If you don't want to configure any binary, there's CloverOS.

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Is there a quick way of installing Gentoo that doesn't requiring compiling?

why would you install it then.. it wont be the same if you use precompiled shit

Only machine I have is an Eee PC with an Intel Atom.

Clover OS isn't just a meme?. What advantages does it have?. You sure it's not backdoored?. Little leery of anything made by 4chan.

You can use a general kernel, but you will have to compile other parts of the system. Here is a list of gentoo derivative distros, see if any of them catch your eye wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distributions_based_on_Gentoo

I'm looking for a classic thinkpad thats 13 inches and under in monitor size, but not the palm ones from the 486 days. Anyone got a good reccomendation thats relatively recent? I'm thinking 2003+

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gas me, i thought this was thinkpad general

There’s a lot of different distros on that list. I’m a beginner, what would you recommend? I know some Linux, I got a Linux essentials cert, but I feel like I don’t even know enough to build my own webserver.

In my experience, I've only tried out Calculate Linux and Sabayon. Sabayon worked well, the last time I tried it back in 2014. I would imagine it would work fine. It does deviate from base gentoo because of their own repos and release schedules. I only had problems with AMD drivers, but since you said you're using an EEEPC, there's not a concern there. Calculate Linux should function fine, just be aware of its eastern european origins and there are issues with encryption not working working on Calculate, last I heard. If you still want to do Gentoo, I would highly reccomend going through the handbook. If you follow it all the way through you should be fine. If compiling is still a concern, I would reccomend testing out the other pre-compiled derivatives. Lastly, there are stage 4 tarballs, but to my knowledge these are made as bootable images to install gentoo onto a hard drive.

I've used it for years. It's a great distro with very sane defaults.

I was going down the linux migration path earlier today (due to sheer boredom) and realized that the kernel still doesn't have proper 802.11AC support (beyond a single chipset). How are people managing? Do you guys not use AC or 5GHz Wifi at all?

yes.
Why would i want to anyway?

To prevent 2.4GHz interference?

It's just an easy mode Gentoo with aggressive optimization AFAIK. You can read about it at cloveros.ga

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CloverOS is a meme. It has no full disk encryption option during it's installation. So what's the point using it then?

It also has dbus in the binary package host despite being an anti-poetteringware/freedesktopware distro.

Only a few packages (DEs) actually pulls it in

That's not true since glib, a very common dependency, is built with dbus

It's also built without dbus. When glib is updated on systems with no dbus-dependant packages, it updates with the glib without dbus.

Only the livecd is built with packages from the nodbus binhost (cloveros.ga/s/nodbus/), meaning, anytime glib is updated on a full installation of cloveros, dbus is installed as well.
Basically, you'll end up running dbus sooner or later.

Pic related is on a fresh installation.

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if you update with ./cloveros_settings.sh u, one of the commands it runs is echo Removing dbus if possible...; for i in {dev-libs/glib,dev-qt/qtgui,dev-python/PyQt5,xfce-base/thunar}; do [ -d /var/db/pkg/$i* ] && sudo PORTAGE_BINHOST="cloveros.ga/s/nodbus" FETCHCOMMAND_HTTPS="wget -O \"\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}\" \"\${URI}\"" emerge -1uD $i; done; sudo emerge --depclean which will update glib and remove dbus if you don't have packages that explicitly require dbus.

It's a quick solution that works and keeps every package available.

Why should I have to use a sloppily put together script that breaks the standard interface for updating packages on gentoo? A better solution would be to produce two separate portage profiles to accommodate systems with and without dbus.

The script is fine. The command removes dbus.

You could also get the portage files with ./cloveros_settings.sh c and edit the packages.use and build yourself.

You're forgetting that dbus is pulled during system updates regardless. It's just that the script removes dbus after the fact.
Also, the script edits user configuration in the zz case, and removes the distfiles cache and build logs for failed emerges in 9 case which may not be desirable. The zz and 9 cases are both called by u.
Take a look at the way pentoo does things, they don't need an ad-hoc script because they use portage profiles instead.

I already manage my own package.use :^)

Your asking for him to do something smart. he's not interested in managing a dbus free veriant of gentoo, he just wants to pose as an ultra hipster on cuck/g/ shove is crappy glued together stage4 everywhere and larp like he's hot shit.
cloveros is just his own personal setup and he never had or has any interest in not using dbus as that would inconvenience him too much.

What is the purpose of dbus and what is the difference between a system with dbus and another system without dbus? What kind of programs would I be unable to use?

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A bunch of shitware refuses to run without dbus which limits your software choices in FOSS to better software unless you start patching it out or compiling it yourself, and even then.

The only thing dbus actually does that you use is enable shutdown/retart/hibernate icons you can press and do the selected thing. Without dbus there is no way to do that as a user, you must be root or write something to interface with HAL to enable shutdown/etc for normal users. Dbus also allows udisks2 to automount disks for you, but you could use udevil and a udisk1 enabled GUI to bypass that. Just symbolic link udisk to udevil and done since udevil is a drop in replacement. Doesn't work for udisks2 though.

There's other things dbus does that take up resources and that you don't use. Such as allowing a network enabled program to send arbitrary commands to programs you have running at a C API level. Like if you had a function DESTROY_COMPUTER() in a C program that had dbus/introspection enabled on it you could call that c function over a network socket from china or from a second user on your machine. Removing this anti-feature reduces program size and allows the compiler to optimize the program better. Ontop of reducing the security risk of such.

Its an IPC, it does what a network enabled IPC is meant to do.

That doesn't change the fact the CloverOS iso doesn't have dbus and it's easily removed.

So does systemd. Hell, so does windows. Why would you spend all this time creating a "distro" if you can't bother to do things properly?

the creator is a underage mentally ill attention whore. thats why.