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KDE Plasma 6 upgrade for stable Gentoo Linux
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this got me interested in trying Gentoo out and I searched what differences exist between Arch and Gentoo:
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/arch-vs-gentoo-linux-distributions
Err, bad start.
The kernel section is confused or just wrong. Arch has you use
pacstrapto install a pre-built kernel (there are options from almost-vanilla to more custom), whereas Gentoo gives you the choice of using vanilla or Gentoo kernel sources (optionally with custom configuration) or just using a pre-built binary.The Gentoo wiki used to be the gold standard, even for non-Gentoo users, but it was an unofficial wiki and a hard-drive crash (if memory serves) killed it with no backups. It was mostly restored with help after that.
Nowadays, I think more people use the Arch wiki.
Gentoo has package binaries available, although that's a newer thing and if you use unusual USE flags you'll need to compile your own anyway.
Weird to put it this way, since Gentoo is well known for its use of OpenRC which is what you'd use instead of systemd. Both are common on Gentoo systems.
I'm stopping here - the whole article feels off, perhaps it's AI-written? I'd recommend finding a better source.
OpenRC is daemon supervisor (probably not the right name).
OpenRC-init is the init.
By default, on OpenRC installations, the init will be SysV.
I have switched a few boxen to openrc-init and have to report that it works fine.
Ha, yeah - the Arch wiki calls it a "service manager" although OpenRC describes itself as a "dependency-based init system". When I wrote that reply I'd started to be more pedantic about the terms but changed it to reflect my core problem that it's not an apples-to-apples comparison to compare all of systemd to the underlying init system (you see loads of "are you using OpenRC or systemd" posts but never systemd vs sysvinit).