I just installed Gentoo in less than a dozen minutes (and with just one command). (… Though, a gentoo install is never “done”.)
how in the...
digit 20251229 tyson mx /home/digit % time sudo brl fetch -n timetoo gentoo [sudo] password for digit: [ 1/16 ( 6%)] Determining name * Using timetoo [ 2/16 ( 12%)] Determining CPU architecture * Using x86_64 [ 3/16 ( 18%)] Determining release * Using rolling [ 4/16 ( 25%)] Determining mirror * Checking bedrock.conf [brl-fetch-mirror] items [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Fast filtering 286 to top 10 [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Finding fastest mirror from 10 [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Using http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo [ 5/16 ( 31%)] Making bootstrap directory structure [ 6/16 ( 37%)] Finding bootstrap software group_flavor: amd64 openrc [ 7/16 ( 43%)] Downloading bootstrap software Looking for file matching: ^stage3-amd64-openrc-[^.]*[.]tar[.]\(xz\|bz2\)$ at: http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc/ found: stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz.DIGESTS % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1352 100 1352 0 0 4684 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4694 Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 250M 100 250M 0 0 1376k 0 0:03:06 0:03:06 --:--:-- 1189k [ 8/16 ( 50%)] Preparing bootstrap software [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% [ 9/16 ( 56%)] Running bootstrap software [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% [10/16 ( 62%)] Configuring !!! Section 'gentoo' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/var/db/repos/gentoo' !!! Invalid Repository Location (not a dir): '/var/db/repos/gentoo' * PGP verification method: gemato * Fetching most recent snapshot ... * Trying to retrieve 20251228 snapshot from http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo ... * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 57 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-12-29 17:07:38 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum [57/57] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum" [1] * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1000 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-12-29 17:07:39 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig [1000/1000] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig" [1] * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 45.76M 1.35MB/s in 35s 2025-12-29 17:08:15 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz [47983992/47983992] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz" [1] * Checking digest ... * Checking signature with gemato ... [ INFO] Refreshing keys... [ INFO] Keys refreshed. [ INFO] File /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz verified successfully against the signature in /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig: [ INFO] - status: OpenPGPSignatureStatus.GOOD [ INFO] - valid: True, trusted: True [ INFO] - primary key: DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D [ INFO] - subkey: E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 [ INFO] - timestamp: 2025-12-29 01:06:30 UTC * Getting snapshot timestamp ... * Extracting 'gentoo-20251228.tar.xz' ... * Using rsync to refresh '/var/db/repos/gentoo' ... Number of files: 155,780 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,531) Number of created files: 155,779 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,530) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 128,249 Total file size: 236.44M bytes Total transferred file size: 236.44M bytes Literal data: 236.44M bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3.60M File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 120.70M Total bytes received: 2.56M sent 120.70M bytes received 2.56M bytes 7.47M bytes/sec total size is 236.44M speedup is 1.92 Performing Global Updates (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) * IMPORTANT: 18 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. [11/16 ( 68%)] Setting locale Found 1 locale declaration in '/etc/locale.gen'. Compiling 2 locales with 2 workers ... [1/2] Compiling locale: C.UTF-8 [2/2] Compiling locale: en_GB.UTF-8 Waiting for active workers to finish their jobs ... The location of the archive shall be '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive'. Adding 2 locales to the locale archive ... Successfully installed an archive containing 2 locales, of 2.93 MiB in size. [12/16 ( 75%)] Cleaning up [13/16 ( 81%)] Importing users and groups [14/16 ( 87%)] Preparing symlinks [15/16 ( 93%)] Showing [16/16 (100%)] Enabling * Successfully fetched a new gentoo stratum with name timetoo ________________________________________________________ Executed in 683.06 secs fish external usr time 90.03 millis 1.33 millis 88.71 millis sys time 182.29 millis 0.55 millis 181.74 millisThe beauty is that you never fully install the Gentoo you want. It’s about the journey and the friends we make along the way, not the destination.
How does one install friends (i want to compile them first)
emergefrom your parents’ basement(challenge level: impossible)
Friends are a bloatware.
Reminder: you can say shit on the Internet.
What is gentoo?
A Hannah Montana Linux wannabe.
Is that Techmoan?
I might pay to watch Techmoan install Gentoo. (I am a big fan. Loved his dashcam reviews.)
I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.
I wanted to try Gentoo to learn more about Linux and compiling.
But that fucking distro just works, and compiling is so automatic I’m done in one command!
I feel betrayed, but also very satisfied by the distro.
Fuck binary blobs.
Sadly, it’s Systemd or Openrc only.
Edit: though there was a s6 custom repo i think, last i looked?
Sadly, it’s Systemd or Openrc only.
You got me quickly checking on that… e.g.:
% eix -c runit [N] sys-process/runit (2.2.0-r2): A UNIX init scheme with service supervision… You sure?
Gentoo’s all about choice.
“Yes, but after you do, it’ll be blazing fast in the twenty minutes before you’ll have to recompile due to software updates.”
“So, you’re saying that it would have been really efficient if all my eight cores weren’t constantly pegged building software?”
“…Uh, yes.”
“And that optimizing software for the native architecture could have enabled power savings, if those machines weren’t all burning oceans of kilowatt hours building the same software over and over again redundantly?”
“Ah…”
