Planet Gentoo
The idea of using a shared jobserver isn’t new either. Jobserver integration was proposed for Gentoo a long time ago. NixOS experimented with jobservers as well. However, steve is pretty new and by design inevitably different from GNU make. We’ve found many issues. And as testing continues and even more client implementations emerge, we’re bound to find more.
Présentation
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we’re actually trying to make computing sustainable. We provide an extensive binary package support, with the ability to build many different configurations of the same package, and either use one that fits your needs or fall back to a source build. You can either use official packages provided by Gentoo for a number of targets, or build and use your own binary packages (either separately or as part of installing your system), or both.
Gentoo used to provide one of the best documentation among all Linux distributions; perhaps it isn’t as great now as it used to be, but it’s still pretty good. And in the end, it is not to keep learning things while using Gentoo. Sooner or later you’ll learn a lot about computing, probably more than you ever wanted to know.
Documentation: Documentation work has made constant progress on wiki.gentoo.org. The Gentoo Handbook had some particularly useful updates, and the documentation received lots of improvements and additions from the many active volunteers. There are currently 9,647 pages on the wiki, and there have been 766,731 edits since the project started.
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