<div dir="ltr">Leam, <div><br></div><div>Hey you can get a developer copy RHEL, but I work with CentOS and I haven't see bad. I don't think they do something like that, you know how many government agencies use CentOS? I a contact for one and they are using. Just get Nexus, scan that shit and move on. </div><div><br></div><div>Pup</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:38 PM Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Gentoo's default init system remains openrc for now; systemd is an <br>
option and iirc was one of the first distros to support it through <br>
regular channels. I run three Gentoo desktop systems; two are KDE (one <br>
is rather abandoned-in-place-but-running in my office at GT) and one is <br>
XFCE, I think. I warn you: a default KDE rig needs at least 8GiB <br>
physical RAM to build a couple of packages, qtwebkit and qtwebengine, <br>
without deliberately throttling back the build's parallel threading. At <br>
8GiB I'm okay at -j3; you need -j1 at 4GiB and it'll take a couple days. <br>
As for your list, I can speak to Firefox/Firefox-bin, LibreOffice, <br>
Brother printers, and Hexchat.<br>
<br>
I won't say that Gentoo is without issues or that it's easy, but I do <br>
know - having worked Red-Hat-alikes in the past - that there are simply <br>
whole classes of issues that most Linux folks seem to have all the time <br>
that are simply not part of my life.<br>
<br>
Gentoo is essentially a frighteningly capable package management system <br>
that has been configured to generate a Linux platform. It will take a <br>
while to get really good at it (although I've been a Gentoo user for <br>
upwards of 20 years now and I *still* don't feel like I'm good at it). A <br>
fully working build system is implicit; at this point most packages <br>
require gcc but some require clang. The package management system <br>
(Portage) is Python-based. I run file and PostgreSQL servers; on desktop <br>
I'm usually on some combination of LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, RStudio, <br>
Firefox, Kate, pgadmin, and QGIS. I'm probably one of the few people who <br>
has gotten Hadoop up and running on Gentoo Linux; new worker nodes <br>
automatically set themselves up (plug 'em in, make 'em PXE-boot, stand <br>
back - new node after reboot).<br>
<br>
On 5/30/20 8:56 AM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:<br>
> I can't remember what I was doing this morning, but I look at the <br>
> installed packages on my CentOS 7 box. I was surprised, and very <br>
> dismayed, that a few dozen rpms came from a repo in the former Eastern <br>
> Bloc.<br>
><br>
> While I love my friends and neighbors of all shapes, sizes, and <br>
> cultural origins, my confidence in not getting a keystroke logger or <br>
> similar hit rock bottom. Who cares about virus protection if you <br>
> install the malware yourself?<br>
><br>
> I've used Void in the past and will be trying to get the few things I <br>
> need onto it. Just wanted to see what other options were out there. <br>
> Here's what I'm using the computer for:<br>
><br>
> Nothing with systemd<br>
> Web, Firefox<br>
> E-mail, Thunderbird<br>
> git<br>
> Printing to a Brother printer<br>
> LibreOffice (mostly to manipulate and print DOCX, XLSX files)<br>
> IRC (Hexchat)<br>
> Ansible<br>
> GnuCash (no bank data)<br>
> Ruby and Perl development (C, libraries)<br>
> Calibre<br>
><br>
><br>
> In the past I've done NetBSD, but their Package site has adware. Not <br>
> sure that speaks well of the project. I'm not quite ready for Linux <br>
> From Scratch, but the more I deal with commercial Linux, the more LFS <br>
> appeals.<br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
><br>
> Leam<br>
><br>
><br>
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