Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion

Pacmanlives@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And by now you mean for the past decade at least.

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  • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh?

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Portage has supported binary packages since forever, back in 2012 I had some binary packages on my system, I clearly remember because it was a pain in the ass to compile certain things, for those I installed the binary version. It’s like Debian supporting source packages, it’s been there since forever but people don’t know about it.

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      • TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The point is that they have recently focused on better binary package availability. Sure they always had support for binary packages but most software needed to be compiled.

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      • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean it’s had -k/-K since mid 2000s from what I remember but it’s changed

        lwn.net/Articles/956428/

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