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  • It’s not quite what you’ve asked for here, but as a Dev I’d be remiss if I didn’t shill for Gentoo.

    It ticks your rolling release box, has fantastic docs, a huge package repository (and the community repo Guru), and by design enables almost infinite configurability and customisation. We also have a binary package repository now for popular architectures, so you can choose to avoid compiling if you don’t want to deviate from sane defaults (or only compile in cases where you do!)

    On the hardware side, we have fantastic support for a number of architectures, I recently brought up a SPARC system and have some arch64 and riscv in the past.

    Finally, even if you just decide to check the distro out, the process of installing, configuring, and maintaining a Linux system is outlined in detail within our handbook, and can provide a peek behind the scenes at what some other distros abstract; it’s a fantastic learning experience for those interested.

    Finally, we have fantastic support through volunteers in official IRC channels and forums, as well as unofficial hubs like discord.

    Hopefully I’ve planted a seed and you’ll check it out down the line. :)





  • I’m a huge proponent of Gentoo Linux as a learning experience. It’s a great way to learn how the components of a system work together and the distro enables an amazing amount of configurability for your system.

    Even following a handbook install in a VM can be a good experience if you’re interested.



  • A software platform that makes it nearly impossible for Beehaw to host, in any way, CSAM.

    I hate to say it, but you’ll need to find a text-only platform. Allowing any image uploads opens the door to things like this.

    Besides that, if your concern is that no moderator should be exposed to anything like that, well on a text-only site you might have to deal with disguised spam links to gore, scam, etc. You’ll still have to click on links to effectively moderate.

    Maybe you should consider if this is a position that you want to put yourself in again. It sounds like this may just not be for you.


  • The standout feature of Gentoo is its configurability; you can configure portage, the package manager, to enable and disable features of a package at build time.

    Say you don’t have Bluetooth. You can just exclude Bluetooth from every package by setting the use flag globally:

    */* -bluetooth
    

    it can even manage dependencies, a good example is picking pipewire over pulse.

    It’s also easy to package software that isn’t in the official repos - here’s a post where I did just that.

    The community is fantastic and supportive, and you can often get a near immediate response in IRC.

    Finally the documentation is excellent, especually the handbook.