It was only a matter of time before a developer decided one of the most challenging Linux distributions needed to be immutable.
Which is better: distributions that develop using point releases or those that use rolling releases?
The Gentoo team has announced there is now a centralized repository available for installing pre-compiled binary packages on the storied distribution.
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