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Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming (itsfoss.com)
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Sabayon Linux was a Gentoo-based distribution that existed from the mid-2000s until 2019. It aimed to make Gentoo accessible to regular users without the usual compilation headaches.

Created by Fabio Erculiani, Sabayon offered pre-built binaries through its Entropy package manager. This let users skip the hours of compiling while still getting the Gentoo experience.

Now Fabio has shared that he's working on a new immutable, atomic Linux distro called matrixOS. Like Sabayon, it's also based on Gentoo.

๐Ÿšง The developer warns that this is a hobby project specifically created for homelab setups, not for production machines.

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[โ€“] flyingSock@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Nowadays gentoo already offers binary packages natively, if the user wants them ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart ). Default is sill to compile locally. But for large packages like libreoffice or browsers the binary packages are nice.

But i can see the benefit for new users in getting sth pre configured. For this to be long term usefull though,the documentation is crucial. Maybe just offering the guide to this specific install or how it differs from the standard install manual, like sakakis install guide (sadly defunct).