What is the BSD equivalent of Arch Linux

Cthulhux said:
I have set up a new Gentoo machine last week, and while they also have an option for precompiled packages now, much of it still isn’t.
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yeah i really like that it's quite conservative compared to Arch, i'm pretty sure the precompiled ones they ship is because the originals would take forever to compile on average hardware
 
ruby R53 said:
i'm pretty sure the precompiled ones they ship is because the originals would take forever to compile on average hardware
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They provide binary packages for everything nowadays, unless you change any flag (which you usually do). But for those who are into bad software, the precompiled LibreOffice surely helps, I guess.
 
I imagine you both know this but you can edit /etc/portage/make.conf and put in a thing prefer binary. If you do, run getuto first, as that will get the keys for said packages. As for Arch and Gentoo, a friend who used to really like Arch and now likes Gentoo, has said in passing that Arch doesn't seem to be checking their packages (probably the AUR stuff) as well as Gentoo does. He didn't go into detail and I didn't ask.
Looking at the Arch installation guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide, I get the impression that they still expect one to install it manually. Though looking at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall it seems archinstall might be right there. I might try it on a VM and see what happens.
 
scottro said:
I've not used the Arch installer. I feel like I should try it though the manual install takes me less than 10-15 minutes, probably what an Ubuntu GUI install takes.
As for Gentoo, that takes me about 20 some minutes, using binary packages.
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I also came into the state where i can speed run Arch install without any manual in just a few minutes. Im not proud.
scottro said:
May as well spam my guides here
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In your Arch manual you are missing instructions on how to install Grub on systems running legacy BIOS.
 
scottro said:
I imagine you both know this but you can edit /etc/portage/make.conf and put in a thing prefer binary. If you do, run getuto first, as that will get the keys for said packages. As for Arch and Gentoo, a friend who used to really like Arch and now likes Gentoo, has said in passing that Arch doesn't seem to be checking their packages (probably the AUR stuff) as well as Gentoo does. He didn't go into detail and I didn't ask.
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yeah that really does seem to be the case, the AUR equivalent of Gentoo is the Guru repository which you can easily add to your repository list, unlike arch's AUR where you have to update it separately or install a helper to manage what you installed from there
that makes the system a lot more consistent in my opinion
 
Well, I just tried archinstaller, and I prefer manual. Mostly because with the installer, I found it difficult to select extra packages I wanted, it took a long time to navigate up and down, so in the end, I gave up, just did a pretty minimal install and used pacman to get what I wanted, such as vi. I guess for someone new to arch the archinstall would be easier but like MrBSD it's gotten easier to manually install Arch, for me, anyway. Also MrBSD, yeah in the Arch quick guide of mine, it does say in the first paragraph that it's for a UEFI boot. I should make it plainer that it covers a specific type of install, thanks for noticing. It should be fixed shortly.
 
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