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bctill wrote on 2023-04-04 11:35:

> I'm not at all sure, but it seems to me that this is the more generic 
> and versatile approach.  I don't know enough yet to compare the pros and 
> cons of LFS vs. Gentoo, but I would love to hear your thoughts about that.

As far as I know, Gentoo comes with package management (evince?), 
whereas LFS means you get to find out when software has new releases, 
where those releases are stored, pull them down, compile them, install 
them - all manually.


LFS seems like a great learning tool, but utterly unfit for a production 
machine (IMHO).


 > Debian, on the other hand, seems to be the at or near the center of
 > the FOSS universe, and the more developers you have scrutinizing your
 > source code, the more secure and reliable it's likely to be.

This is an important consideration and I'm quoting it to agree with it.


 > The main objections that people have about Debian is its heavy
 > dependency on systemd

Again, it (systemd) is at the centre of the FOSS universe now and has 
many dev's eyes on it.


 > and its slowness to adopt new versions of packages.

This is one reason I've never dabbled with Debian.


 > If I only have to recompile my installation once every few years,
 > that is a definite plus!

If security is a concern (it should be), you'd want to be more 
up-to-date than "every few years".



There are a lot of trade-offs in choosing a distro, just adding my 
thoughts...



rb

(Happy user of KDEneon desktop, and Ubuntu server on servers.)