matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto: "emerge once, deploy everywhere."

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.

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

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    In Gentoo, emerge compiles packages from source on practically every machine you set up. matrixOS remedies this by building once and distributing binaries, so you skip the compilation wait entirely.

    Okay, soooooo…basically disregarding the entire point and benefit of Gentoo? The entire reason you’d want to build from source on a specific machine or architecture is for the compiler optimizations done on that hardware. Just shipping binaries around is normal, so I’m not getting what the point is here.