The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors.
Gentoo in 2025 moved away from GitHub to the Forgejo-based Codeberg in order to avoid Microsoft Copilot usage of their repositories. On the financial front, Gentoo moved their financial structure over to Software in the Public Interface (SPI).
I absolutely love Gentoo. However, while 20 years ago it made sense to compile your own kernel, I don’t see the advantage today. What is todays Use Case for Gentoo? Why should anyone use it?
I know, it is a cool distro and as a user you learn a lot about BSD. Just asking because I fail to recommend or use Gentoo nowadays for a valid reason.
Today, it’s a toolbox to create your own distro.
ChromeOS was made with Gentoo, for example.
I didn’t know that! That’s cool!