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Re:CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Long... by amadio on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:52PM (#49568606)
I'm a Gentoo dev and work at CERN since a while. Of course I jokingly suggested that to my colleagues. I think it could actually work pretty well, though. Many physicists use Gentoo.

We run most things on Alma Linux, but there's also RedHat in the mix.

A good intersection of CERN and Gentoo is EESSI. They use CVMFS, which is a FUSE filesystem used for software distribution from CERN, and Gentoo as part of their software stack. See links below for more info:

- https://www.eessi.io/docs/filesystem_layer/

- https://www.eessi.io/docs/compatibility_layer/

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Re:CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Long... by ThiefMaster- on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:27PM (#49569827)
Not a Gentoo dev, but also at CERN. I've been using (headless, I'm not going down the GUI toolkit building rabbit-hole again) Gentoo for the last 15 years of development (both at home and at work). Great OS :)
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Re:CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Long... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:01AM (#49573503)
Yeah, I'm really not sure that's a joke; binary packages, optionally combined with a prefix install, seem like a great fit.
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Re:CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Long... by nwmcsween on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:29PM (#49649745)
The issue imo with Gentoo is the compiler flag explosion, the giant case statement I had long ago for packages that would fail to compile on even simple standard -Werror= was huge.
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