You know, one of the things that has maybe gotten lost sight of in the past few years in Gentoo is: what exactly is<\/b> Gentoo, anyway? Is it a distro? Is it a meta-distro? What the hell is a meta-distro anyway?<\/p>\n
So, I’ve been playing with Django<\/a> a lot lately. And that obviously makes people think of Ruby on Rails<\/a> for some reason. But here’s the point: django and ruby are frameworks that allow me to build what I want to build. And that’s the real power of Gentoo, isn’t it? Gentoo is a framework for your own distro.<\/p>\n Its power is in being a platform. A platform upon which to build exactly the sort of system that scratches your itches. You know, you get your ricers<\/a> and then you get the regular desktop user, and the server users and the hardened users and the embedded users (and I haven’t mentioned all the different architectures let alone the BSD people — well there, I just mentioned them), and most of these people probably installed the basic system in the same way and then went on to customise.<\/p>\n There’s a sense of empowerment there, and it awes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know, one of the things that has maybe gotten lost sight of in the past few years in Gentoo is: what exactly is Gentoo, anyway? Is it a distro? Is it a meta-distro? What the hell is a meta-distro anyway? So, I’ve been playing with Django a lot lately. And that obviously makes people … Continue reading Platforms (Part I)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}