What’s the reason for Gentoo having so few distros based on him compared to other distro families?

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    2 months ago

    I think it’s somewhere around 15 derivates for Gentoo. 1 2

    It’s about the same number as lots of other distros?! I don’t see any substancial difference there. Except when you compare it to something like Debian. There are some hugely popular distros.

  • Klicnik@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Because Genthree Genfour Genfive Gensix, etc. would get confused with other products on a Google search.

  • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    2 months ago

    People make new distros based on existing distros to alter the software stack in the original distro. Gentoo allows you to use essentially whatever software stack you feel like, it’s less of a traditional distro and more of a general-purpose Linux package manager and dependency resolver. It’s not very opinionated at all.