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458 points turrini | 6 comments | 06 Dec 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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Retr0id ◴[06 Dec 25 23:50 UTC] No.46177732[source]▶
Linus Torvalds currently uses Fedora with GNOME, which was fun to learn because that's also been my personal choice for a while now.

(source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA )

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WD-42 ◴[07 Dec 25 00:10 UTC] No.46177913[source]▶
He said also because fedora seemed the most amenable to running custom kernels which is basically what he does all day.
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1. nurettin ◴[07 Dec 25 01:43 UTC] No.46178451[source]▶
Which is weird, I've compiled and ran custom kernels and modules on debian before fedora 1.0 iso was announced on freenode/#fedora and it wasn't even good.
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2. WD-42 ◴[07 Dec 25 03:09 UTC] No.46178814[source]▶
Ok have you considered things may have changed in the 40+ releases since then?
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3. nurettin ◴[07 Dec 25 09:51 UTC] No.46180497[source]▶
Yes, but I've been considering both operating systems to have changed for the better, not just fedora for some weird reason.
4. arendtio ◴[07 Dec 25 12:57 UTC] No.46181363[source]▶
For Gentoo, it was/is? part of the standard installation to configure and build a custom kernel.
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5. sph ◴[07 Dec 25 21:53 UTC] No.46185549[source]▶
It still is an utter pain if you ever need to get close to the rpm system.

Probably what he means is that a make install (or whatever the incantation, it’s been a while since I compiled a kernel) just works on Fedora and never has to deal with the rpm nonsense (I use Fedora too, but packaging is even more dreadful than deb, if you can believe it)

6. nurettin ◴[08 Dec 25 07:03 UTC] No.46189274[source]▶
I remember the first gentoo. On the framebuffer it had a beautiful blue/gray background with the logo and provided you with choices. You could build everything from scratch or install a bootstrapped version. I tried both, failed and gave up (my poor AMD k5 couldn't handle the heat). But the point here is: it was always easy to build a kernel within your debian installation from deb-src. You could even build it as a deb, install it and reboot into it. If my job was to manage a linux kernel, I'd have a script which took the latest sources, set kernel parameters, packaged it as deb-src and then it is just two steps to build and reboot. Then I could switch between them easily.