Whereas Gentoo Linux is best-known as source-based Linux distribution, “our package deal supervisor, Portage, already for years additionally has help for binary packages,” in keeping with its net web page. It notes that source- and binary-based package deal installations will be freely combined.
However now…
To hurry up working with sluggish {hardware} and for general comfort, we’re now additionally providing binary packages for obtain and direct set up! For many architectures, that is restricted to the core system and weekly updates — not so for amd64 and arm64 nevertheless. There we have a surprising >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo secure, up to date each day. Take pleasure in! “We now have a moderately neat binary package deal information on our Wiki that goes into rather more element…” the announcement factors out.
The packages are cryptographically signed with the identical key because the phases.
Because of Heraklit (Slashdot reader #29,346) for sharing the information.