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Re:In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries by argiopetech on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:50PM (#38873401)
As the original announcement (linked in a sibling) stated, Gentoo has shipped binaries for some time now for some of the packages that take longer to build (Chromium, LibreOffice) and when source isn't available (firmware, Nvidia drivers).

The difference now is that they are shipping binaries for all packages.

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Re:In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries by babypuncher on Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:09PM (#38873592)
I was going to say, I remember getting KDE and OpenOffice pre-compiled 15 years ago. I made the mistake of building them from source on my Pentium 4 exactly once.
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