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Redcore Linux
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Reader supplied reviews for Redcore Linux
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8.0 from 31 review(s)
Version: 2401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-21
Votes: 22
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A solid distro that was very simple to install, and an excellent example for people not wanting to compile a gentoo build from source. KDE out of the box runs smooth and among the many Linux distros that exist i think gentoo/redcore has some of the best documentation available. Also for those that care about gaming I was able to setup Steam without issue and it runs great. Since migrating to Linux from windows about 5 years ago most if not all my time has been spent on Debian derivatives and Redcore was a delight to use and an excellent introduction to Gentoo.
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Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-14
Votes: 63
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Hardware: OptiPlex 3060, Intel i3-8300T X(4) 3.200GHz CoffeeLake-S UHD Graphics 630, Memory used 2954MiB/15824MiB, RedcoreHardened Rolling.Boulder.Uphill x86_64 Kernel: 6.1.61-redcore-lts, Window Manager: KWin, Packages: 1618 (emerge). Note that the default init in Gentoo & Redcore is "openRC."
Redcore 2201 (Rastaban) was installed over a year ago and has successfully upgraded through two rolling releases (Sirius & Rolling.Boulder.Uphill), including all the updates. Old Apple devices will work fine with RC; wifi & ethernet drivers are installed by default if required — a great way to repurpose those Apple PCs sitting in the cupboard gathering dust.
Note: this is a biased review as I'm a long-term Redcore (RC) user. RC is pure Hardened Gentoo that installs in minutes using the Calamares GUI installer. The live ISO/installer is around 4GB, designed to be installed offline, and the installer includes just about all the software needed to run as a typical desktop. KDE Plasma is the only supported desktop. Unlike Gentoo, the goal of Redcore is to be a binary OS, rather than a source-based distro, making it easier and substantially quicker to install packages than its parent. Achieved by RC's package wrapper, "Sisyphus," with typical usage being "sisyphus install ," or if choosing to install a package that is unavailable in the RC repositories, it can be installed from Gentoo using the same install commands, but adding "-e" to the end of "sisyphus install -e." It's straightforward; unlike "emerge," Sisyphus just works. Avoid installing packages with "emerge" as it installs the package as an alien, potentially resulting in instability of package management. If you install a package with "emerge," it is essential to sync the RC & Gentoo repos with the command "sisyphus spmsync." Updates & upgrades are not prompted; you must take the initiative to run them yourself. There are two ways to do this: Sisyphus GUI, accessible via the system icon in the Plasma app launcher. Note that using the SISYPHUS GUI will not install source-based updates, and you will be prompted to use the terminal and run the command "sisyphus install upgrade -e." I choose to run this command when updating. This syncs the packages and the RC & Gentoo repos, looks for all updates & upgrades, and then asks you to confirm the listed installs. Please run "sisyphus --help," and there you will see a list of commands, and you can ask for help like "sisyphus branch --help."
Overall, RC is a fast, responsive and stable distro. I find RC more stable than Debian & Arch distros. It's my workhorse. The initial release of RC was in 2017; there were issues in 2018 &and historical. Please don't negatively rate RC if you use the command "emerge" due to ignorance or not researching how to run the package wrapper Sisyphus. Don't use "emerge" unless instructed by the developer, either directly or on the news page at redcorelinux.org. Ensure your hardware is supported, and note that RC is only compatible with AMD & Intel 64 hardware. Btrfs is only supported as a storage device, not for the RC OS drive; use ext4.
Community support is available at Libera IRC #redcorelinux. Be patient for great community help and be considerate of different time zones. It's not a huge community but a very supportive one. I hope this provides more understanding of RC, and hopefully, you will see the benefits of RC as I have.
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Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-08
Votes: 2
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It's a superb distribution and it's easy to use even though it's based on Gentoo. Too bad it doesn't offer a GNOME desktop version.
The software repository contains too few applications and I think they should add more of the popular programs.
If they offered a version with GNOME and more applications in the official repository it would surely be more successful.
Otherwise it is a superb distribution. Too bad it's not as well known as it deserves to be. But neither is it promoted by the developer much more.
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Version: 2301
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-19
Votes: 8
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After unsuccessful attempts, years ago, to install Sabayon, I remained curious to try a Gentoo-based distro and finally got around to downloading Redcore's large ISO (2.5 hours on my rural broadband).
Unexpectedly, installation on both desktop and laptop was then the quickest and sweetest I have ever experienced. Even more unexpectedly, given its low profile on Distrowatch, it has so far proved to be a truly outstanding distro: full-fat, solid-feeling, but very fast and polished, too.
Cons? Personally, I've never found KDE very intuitive (though Plasma is much better than earlier iterations), and there is slight inelegance in the UEFI start-up screens. That's it: I don't think a 10 is realistically possible, but this is more a 9.8 than a 9.
Huge thanks to all at Redcore for this excellent system!
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Version: 2301
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-31
Votes: 5
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After reading some of the review here, I wondered if installing Redcore was going to be a waist of my time. Redcore has been around for ages, but I was reluctant to try it. I gave it a shot after testing a string of terrible distros that were highly recommended. I loaded Redcore into my 2015, slow as molasses Gateway, and it came alive! Thanks to Redcore it's fast as lightening now, and is on my desk and no longer in the trash heap. I had always liked Gentoo distros but most have vanished over the years. Sabayon was a favorite, but its complicated updating progress usually led to software conflicts resulting in a meltdown. Redcore is simple, straightforward, and practical. But with Linux flexibility. That's what I like. I think more people would like it too, if they just gave it a try.
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Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-08
Votes: 48
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Redcore Linux was installed Feb. 25, 2023 onto my 2008 Dell Studio i-7 with eight gigs of memory. Redcore requires a lot more time to install binary applications than I have experienced with any other operating systems, but every application works perfectly. Applications run smoother and more responsive than I have experienced with any other Linux system. In addition to binary and source applications, I have installed third-party applications such as Google-Chrome without a glitch. Either Twitter and Facebook changes their system to be smoother operating, or Redcore did something to make those two sites run smoother.
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Version: 2201
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-25
Votes: 17
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Used this operating system on think-pad still installed, accidentally got the notorious black screen of death, after used my smart-phone did some research online seems to be something to do with boot manager using light-dm and sddm. Went to redcore home page saw they had the fix, used it, it says after you fix light-dm and sddm to update the operating system. Had similar problems using Slackware 15 and their respins and forks such as zenwalk. If' redcore team in Romanian could iron out ( fix this bug error ) this bug on future.
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Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-25
Votes: 36
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Interesting distribution as there are not many Gentoo based distributions around. Last time I checked, Sabayon was dead and reincarnated in something weird called MoccacinoOS without any Gentoo resemblance.
This one works extremely well on my hardware, which is a gaming Asus GL702ZC laptop, wifi, sound, bluetooth, touchpad, everything seem to work correctly. Is fast as well, and with Lutris and Steam preinstalled, is a great fit to my laptop. Will keep it around for a while, to see if an update breaks it, but so far, I like what I see and how it feels on my hardware. Time will tell if it will remain stable.
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Version: 2301
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-02-24
Votes: 1
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I have followed this distro since its "orion" version and I have been installing it on different computers: it does not work well on any. Sometimes it doesn't recognize the touchpad, sometimes it doesn't recognize the wifi, sometimes the graphics card doesn't work well with xorg or wayland, when other distros work perfectly on the computer. In short: I have installed the distro in different versions and on about 5 different computers: none of it works completely well. Otherwise, it's a good idea to make Gentoo simpler. I know "purists" want "pure" Linux. I only want Linux to work, not to waste time with the PC.
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Version: 2201
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 2
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The ISO is over 4GB and three months old. I strongly recommend, to those who have slow Internet connections, and to those not familiar with Gentoo to pass this by until the developers put out a new ISO. If the Sisyphus program is interrupted for any reason trying to do a system update, and it's run again, it clears all packages it previously downloaded. It's so very frustrating, it was trying to get at least 3GB of stuff which took me nearly six hours. In the last 1-1/2 hours it obtained no more than 50 packages. With 50 more packages to get it suddenly crashed. Then when I went to run Sisyphus again it made like starting from the beginning.
Cannot use Discover instead because it's buggy and this is with any distro that features KDE.
It's understandable the team is small and are doing what they can. But one would have liked to keep this distro, with the "effects" of Calculate being able to provide a weekly ISO.
I'm not a great fan of KDE Plasma but the "bloody red" theme on this distro looks spectacular. I went further tweaking it because it seems the compositor was disabled and therefore window backgrounds could blend into each other.
Will need at least 32GB _on_ _the_ _main_ _partition_ in case of the folly I have just suffered.
by mnrv-ovrf-year-c
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Version: 2201
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-14
Votes: 5
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I have been a Redcore user for 4 years and I confirm that the distribution has made great progress, especially for installation.
By running a new installation of recent version 2201, I was confronted with a Calamares error: using another file system than ext4 the installation of the bootloader crashes (I had the same problem on other distributions this it is therefore not Redcore which is in question).
Another small black point that I can criticize is the lack of distribution-specific documentation. Ok, we can rely on the Gentoo documentation but a slightly developed Redcore wiki would not be a luxury.
Finally I can point out that Wayland and KDE still don't mix well, especially with an NVidia graphics card :-)
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Version: 2201
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-10-09
Votes: 4
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It is a pity that does not have support for other languages, the world is not reduced to English speech.They seem to be reduced to this field, which reduces the possibilities that more people can use Redcore.With that change they made, and safely, the number of users would increase greatly.In favor it has the incomparable base of Gentoo, pre -compilation, desktop entens, facility ease, etc.All that good job is limited by the use of a single language.For the rest, very few distributions have the versatility of Redcore.
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Version: 2201
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-10-07
Votes: 0
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Gave it a rating 5 based on its usefulness to me. I did not bother installing Redcore as it would be no use to me personally, as I need RTSP streaming, so I am not saying Redcore is not a fine effort, it just no good to me.
I have only written this because in the past I have used Linux distro's and VLC as an Onvif security camera server option, however this time around, I am surprised how many distros, do not support RTSP streaming anymore.
Forget anything Debian and derivatives or Gentoo as well, it appears, I will now try Manjaro.
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Version: 2201
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-10-06
Votes: 0
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I had heard of this distro and wanted to give it a try as I am a fan of Gentoo but did not want to go through another 2-3 days of compiling everything like I did on another box. Thats the only reason I cant take Gentoo seriously, its not something you can install quickly restore and get back to work, plus trying to get full disk encryption is another story. But anyway I downloaded the iso and booted it up in a qemu vm got a red boot screen and selected the top option "start redcore" and it started up and went to a cli, ok so I saw that root login was just enter with no password so now I am at a root prompt, I was under the impression this was a graphical install but let me go to the documentation and verify where to go from here as I am familiar with Gentoo. I go to the install page and these were the instructions:
"There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page."
So I looked around and other links showed the same message so I thought let me try it one more time in case it was a fluke. I got the same result. Not sure what to think of this distro but I will tell you I am also testing out Calculate which is a binary Gentoo based distro and it is by far the best out there, it just works and they have done a fantastic job plus they do have documentation to get you up and running unlike Redcore so my advice is dont waste your time with this and go straight to Calculate.
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Version: 2201
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-10-06
Votes: 1
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I think the idea behind this distro is great: make gentoo very usable. It comes with many packages already precompiled and easy to install using Sisyphus. It is also easy to update packages and system. Among the precompiled packages, there is skype, google chrome, wine, etc. However, it hasn't worked on my new hardware: installer gives problems, distro too: almost nothing works on kde plasma (lenovo new intel i5); in another almost new and simple laptop it does not pick up the wifi either (hp with amd athon). On old imac doesn't recognize my wifi. It's a shame, because I really want to have this distro and use it as a daily controller, i love gentoo when gentoo is more easier.
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Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-21
Votes: 6
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usually nothing gets a 10. I've tried and retried this distro and come away impressed. Either the speed or the stability wasn't there of something simple just didn't work, or it took too long to update or it took too long to build a package. Now it's slicker and quicker and the most stable distro I've ever felt (I mean it, you can literally feel how stable it is) It does what Debian won't and gives you the flexibility of Gentoo. I've replaced three machines Arch based distro with this because it looks better that the best arch based plasma. When I was last here I said that it would work on one of my laptops the lenovo t540' with i5 chip and not the t540 with the i7 chip. That problem seems to have been fixed. It takes a little while to update but when its over it's well worth it. This is now my daily driver.
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Version: 2102
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-05-05
Votes: 5
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Thought I'd revisit this distro and am pleasantly surprised. No problem with install. It's gorgeous as usual but this time things actually work and its not as slow as molasses. You can feel the stability of the distro as you use it and it doesn't take a year to compile a program any more. Sisyphus has improved this distro drastically. I do believe I might be able to find a permanent home for this one. There are still a few programs that I would like to see in the package manager but I've got time. I actually like this version and will keep it around for a while.
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Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-27
Votes: 4
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In my opinion there is none better.(2)
Even among other gentoo-derived distros, this is outstanding in terms of stability, speed and easy of use.
Don't judge it by the average score,
the latest version won't make anyone disappointed
TP X250 - it couldn't be better
Precision Workstation 3561 CTO - bluetooth mouse won't work, but I think it's of Kernel driver issue rather than distro packaging
My first distro was SLS, then Slack for a decade.
at work, mostly SuSE/RHEL for long
Tried Arch, Debian, Ubuntu*, and others (60+)
Even I'd tried to make my own from the scratch, but abandoned; The lesson learned was that I had to express my gratitude to all the distro developers ;-)
Finally, due to my laziness, I found myself enjoying Redcore KDE since last Oct.
Much appreciate its stability, the massive update has never failed
It's my daily driver now.
Please keep up the good work
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Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-04
Votes: 19
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Flawless OS.
Probably the Best Non-SystemD out there.
Never once failed installing correct Wifi card.
Ready for Nvidia Amd Intel Gpus.
Pure Hardened Binary Gentoo
Installs in minutes, even encrypted.
Even for Non Techies, it's really easy to use.
Plasma desktop, so for windows people out there, it has a lot of similarity, but so much better & flexible to modify it to the way you want.
Sisyphus pkg wrapper is so basic compared to emerge. Never fails to install pkg's regardless if a binary or source pkg.
Every pkg listed Gentoo's portage is available in Redcore. If not showing up "sisyphus-gui" which are binaries, then search with "sisyphus search 'packagename' -e" this will search portage for gentoo source pkg's. then install the pkg with "sisyphus install 'packagename' -e" The "-e" is for ebuild (from source).
Great help available at
LiberaChat
chanel, " #RedcoreLinux "
Server irc.libera.chat
Port 6667
Enjoy,
I'm not very technical, but it's my go to stable OS. In my opinion there is none better. I've tried most of the Debian's. alot of Arch's, countless other's. For ease of use & stability this is the one. It maybe a small distro, but it's been around for a number of years.
Those that are technical, that try it & like it, contact the developer let him you know it's strengths weakness, if you could contribute in a technical way to to refine & improve Redcore , I'm sure he would appreciate your help.
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Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-29
Votes: 10
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GREAT !
simple fast install, very stable, easy to use Gentoo installs in minutes. The emerge wrapper "sisyphus" is so easy to use & fully comprehend, unlike emerge. little tip when searching for packages if it's not showing up as binary with " sisypus search pkg" add "-e " and it will look for ebuilds in gentoo repositories.Packages install much faster than using gentoo's repositories. stick to the sisyphus commands NOT emerge. This Os is a winner !
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Version: 2102
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-27
Votes: 0
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good,fast system. for me there is a problem:difficult setting pppoe. Thanks.
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Version: 2101
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-08-03
Votes: 7
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Being fairly new to Linux this is what I have been looking for. My friend and Linux mentor, who is a hard core Funtoo power user even likes it. He told me I could quit looking for a daily driver and stick to this one.
The nature of the beast will bring me up to the next level.
A big thank you to all involved with the development of this Distribution.
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Version: 2101
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-06-19
Votes: 7
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After being actively targeted by MITM attacks for a few months, Redcore Linux is the first and only distro that runs the patched packages that block them!! This is by itself a GREAT plus on which I can build on.
The biggest cons are the lack of documentation and the few available packages.
Anyway, a regular user who has no special needs (for servers) will feel gladly at home with KDE, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, LibreOffice, .... and a bunch of other goodies.
Definitely a distro to try and install. Highly suggested. Redcore Linux is here to stay and grow in popularity.
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Version: 2101
Rating: 4
Date: 2021-06-14
Votes: 1
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I have always wanted to love Redcore, but it looks like that Redcore does not love my hardware :). I have long been trying to get it work, since 1908 version, attracted by the developer's praiseworthy goal: "bringing the power of Gentoo to the masses". Indeed, the distro offers a graphical software manager (sisyphus) and binary packages, saving you hours of compiling (that should be the standard Gentoo way) and, importantly, is systemd-free. The desktop environment is KDE and the default theme is one of the most beautiful ones that I have seen so far. The big problem is always tge same: after few times, the system won't boot, hanging infinitely on random services. My 2 cents is that maybe this distro should be tested on a broader spectrum of hardware, though I don't think I have any unusual architecture.
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Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-24
Votes: 11
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Redcore has been my main operating system since 3/13/21. I have not had a single crash and everything runs and performs well on my computers. It takes a long period of time to update, but it functions without any missing software or drivers. When updating with Sisyphus, be sure to write down and do whatever the text messages tell you to do and you will always have a smooth running and updated system.
Most likely, the installation will crash the first time you attempt to install it. Don't worry, just restart the install program and it should repair itself and install.
Redcore is an automated Gentoo installation program that identifies your computer's processors, video cards, printers, and all. Basically, the installation program is doing what would take an average person, with experience, a day or more to complete. Best of all, if Redcore installs it, it is needed.
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Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-03-07
Votes: 6
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Fired up Redcore from a USB stick. As others have noted, no graphical programs functioned once I activated WIFI, including the installer and terminal. So much for a live session. Rebooted and without WIFI the graphical stuff worked fine, so I brought up the installer and installed Redcore on my 8 year old Toshiba laptop, keeping my previous /home partition.
After the install everything worked beautifully. KDE Plasma was not familiar to me; it's pretty intuitive and quite attractive. The machine is faster and more responsive than in it's previous life on Ubuntu with Gnome - very pleased with performance and feel.
I've played with Sisyphus in both the gui and from the command line; downloads are a little slow but worked seamlessly, updating 300 packages in about 45 minutes after the install. For fun I also installed scrypt from source Gentoo-style using emerge - it was awe-inspiring to watch.
Two weeks in and I'm very happy with Redcore so far! I'm planning to try Gentoo in the future but am intimidated by its complexity. Redcore is an exceptionally friendly introduction to the Gentoo world, but well worth keeping as a desktop OS on its own merits.
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Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 1
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I've been using this for daily system on my laptop and I'm really enjoying it.
Plasma upgraded and very configurable
Sisyphus apparently has been rewritten and works great.
The system went through a seemingly major package upgrade and was very smooth. No problems in sisyphus.
I've been extremely happy and this is a beta!
Please give it a try. Will be well worth the effort!
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Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-02-03
Votes: 9
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Simply the Best !
I tried Ubuntu and some spins of it, Linux Mint, fedora, manjaro, debian and many more distros, but nothing works as good as redcore. Easy to configure, take a look at the wonderful gentoo wiki, easy to use and you can customize everything.
The only thing, so far, that does not work, is sisyphus. Tried to install opera browser, but it does not work. Used "emerge" to install it and it works. So I am using emerge for installing progs/apps, no problem.
Conclusion: If you are searching for a fast and stable linux-system, try redcore, you will like it. If you want to have a secure system, redcore is a good basis to start from, but you still have some work to do like you have to do with every other distro.
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Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-01-25
Votes: 11
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Failed to boot on my laptop via USB stick burnt via Rufus on W!0. "File system unknown"
Failed to load successfully on Virtualbox.
Gentto, Red Hat, no difference, endless loading's, reboot, load to the red flash screen, then endless cycling of the same.
Did eventually work on VMware VM using Red Hat as a base choice, Gentoo did not work however.
When I was able to see it, it looks like a Deepen colourscape. Very good colours and icons.
The KDE experience was no better or worse than other KDE Distro's
Just use Kubuntu, and save yourself the time. Filled in several hours for me on a rainy day.
First experience for me on Gentoo, so experienced Users will know how to make it work I expect.
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Version: 2004
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-17
Votes: 9
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Amazing, found passwords@ redcorelinux.org/download.Open-rc,Pure Gentoo, easy Calamares install,it's real power comes with portage wrapper "sisyphus" or sisypus-gui.Every pkg in Gentoo is available either binary/source pkg. Install binary with sisyphus install pkg,source pkg use sisyphus install pkg --ebuild, read sisyphus --help.No need to use emerge flags.Pkg build so easily.This alpha it's very stable.The rolling release needed to be rebuilt due to Gentoo announcing new build's that nearly broke RC.So with this new build, it will be to sustain the rolling release.Use this LiveOS as installer, not asan OS It freezes, you will not have issues installing Redcore. Easy& stable Gentoo you will come across,
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Version: 2004
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-01-12
Votes: 7
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It may be amazing but I"ll never know because the password doesn't work. As usual it looks pretty and as usual I can't get into it. I will never understand why any developer who wants you to look at his distro ask you for a password. It's got to be the most idiotic thing I've ever encountered. Yes i did look up the password from their site and no it doesn't work. I was looking forward to trying this because last time I tried redcore it was the slowest thing on earth. I had hoped to see some improvement. Silly me!!!
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Latest Reviews
Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-21
Votes: 22
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A solid distro that was very simple to install, and an excellent example for people not wanting to compile a gentoo build from source. KDE out of the box runs smooth and among the many Linux distros that exist i think gentoo/redcore has some of the best documentation available. Also for those that care about gaming I was able to setup Steam without issue and it runs great. Since migrating to Linux from windows about 5 years ago most if not all my time has been spent on Debian derivatives and Redcore was a delight to use and an excellent introduction to Gentoo.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-14
Votes: 63
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Hardware: OptiPlex 3060, Intel i3-8300T X(4) 3.200GHz CoffeeLake-S UHD Graphics 630, Memory used 2954MiB/15824MiB, RedcoreHardened Rolling.Boulder.Uphill x86_64 Kernel: 6.1.61-redcore-lts, Window Manager: KWin, Packages: 1618 (emerge). Note that the default init in Gentoo & Redcore is "openRC."
Redcore 2201 (Rastaban) was installed over a year ago and has successfully upgraded through two rolling releases (Sirius & Rolling.Boulder.Uphill), including all the updates. Old Apple devices will work fine with RC; wifi & ethernet drivers are installed by default if required — a great way to repurpose those Apple PCs sitting in the cupboard gathering dust.
Note: this is a biased review as I'm a long-term Redcore (RC) user. RC is pure Hardened Gentoo that installs in minutes using the Calamares GUI installer. The live ISO/installer is around 4GB, designed to be installed offline, and the installer includes just about all the software needed to run as a typical desktop. KDE Plasma is the only supported desktop. Unlike Gentoo, the goal of Redcore is to be a binary OS, rather than a source-based distro, making it easier and substantially quicker to install packages than its parent. Achieved by RC's package wrapper, "Sisyphus," with typical usage being "sisyphus install ," or if choosing to install a package that is unavailable in the RC repositories, it can be installed from Gentoo using the same install commands, but adding "-e" to the end of "sisyphus install -e." It's straightforward; unlike "emerge," Sisyphus just works. Avoid installing packages with "emerge" as it installs the package as an alien, potentially resulting in instability of package management. If you install a package with "emerge," it is essential to sync the RC & Gentoo repos with the command "sisyphus spmsync." Updates & upgrades are not prompted; you must take the initiative to run them yourself. There are two ways to do this: Sisyphus GUI, accessible via the system icon in the Plasma app launcher. Note that using the SISYPHUS GUI will not install source-based updates, and you will be prompted to use the terminal and run the command "sisyphus install upgrade -e." I choose to run this command when updating. This syncs the packages and the RC & Gentoo repos, looks for all updates & upgrades, and then asks you to confirm the listed installs. Please run "sisyphus --help," and there you will see a list of commands, and you can ask for help like "sisyphus branch --help."
Overall, RC is a fast, responsive and stable distro. I find RC more stable than Debian & Arch distros. It's my workhorse. The initial release of RC was in 2017; there were issues in 2018 &and historical. Please don't negatively rate RC if you use the command "emerge" due to ignorance or not researching how to run the package wrapper Sisyphus. Don't use "emerge" unless instructed by the developer, either directly or on the news page at redcorelinux.org. Ensure your hardware is supported, and note that RC is only compatible with AMD & Intel 64 hardware. Btrfs is only supported as a storage device, not for the RC OS drive; use ext4.
Community support is available at Libera IRC #redcorelinux. Be patient for great community help and be considerate of different time zones. It's not a huge community but a very supportive one. I hope this provides more understanding of RC, and hopefully, you will see the benefits of RC as I have.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-08
Votes: 2
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It's a superb distribution and it's easy to use even though it's based on Gentoo. Too bad it doesn't offer a GNOME desktop version.
The software repository contains too few applications and I think they should add more of the popular programs.
If they offered a version with GNOME and more applications in the official repository it would surely be more successful.
Otherwise it is a superb distribution. Too bad it's not as well known as it deserves to be. But neither is it promoted by the developer much more.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-19
Votes: 8
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After unsuccessful attempts, years ago, to install Sabayon, I remained curious to try a Gentoo-based distro and finally got around to downloading Redcore's large ISO (2.5 hours on my rural broadband).
Unexpectedly, installation on both desktop and laptop was then the quickest and sweetest I have ever experienced. Even more unexpectedly, given its low profile on Distrowatch, it has so far proved to be a truly outstanding distro: full-fat, solid-feeling, but very fast and polished, too.
Cons? Personally, I've never found KDE very intuitive (though Plasma is much better than earlier iterations), and there is slight inelegance in the UEFI start-up screens. That's it: I don't think a 10 is realistically possible, but this is more a 9.8 than a 9.
Huge thanks to all at Redcore for this excellent system!
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-31
Votes: 5
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After reading some of the review here, I wondered if installing Redcore was going to be a waist of my time. Redcore has been around for ages, but I was reluctant to try it. I gave it a shot after testing a string of terrible distros that were highly recommended. I loaded Redcore into my 2015, slow as molasses Gateway, and it came alive! Thanks to Redcore it's fast as lightening now, and is on my desk and no longer in the trash heap. I had always liked Gentoo distros but most have vanished over the years. Sabayon was a favorite, but its complicated updating progress usually led to software conflicts resulting in a meltdown. Redcore is simple, straightforward, and practical. But with Linux flexibility. That's what I like. I think more people would like it too, if they just gave it a try.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-08
Votes: 48
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Redcore Linux was installed Feb. 25, 2023 onto my 2008 Dell Studio i-7 with eight gigs of memory. Redcore requires a lot more time to install binary applications than I have experienced with any other operating systems, but every application works perfectly. Applications run smoother and more responsive than I have experienced with any other Linux system. In addition to binary and source applications, I have installed third-party applications such as Google-Chrome without a glitch. Either Twitter and Facebook changes their system to be smoother operating, or Redcore did something to make those two sites run smoother.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-25
Votes: 36
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Interesting distribution as there are not many Gentoo based distributions around. Last time I checked, Sabayon was dead and reincarnated in something weird called MoccacinoOS without any Gentoo resemblance.
This one works extremely well on my hardware, which is a gaming Asus GL702ZC laptop, wifi, sound, bluetooth, touchpad, everything seem to work correctly. Is fast as well, and with Lutris and Steam preinstalled, is a great fit to my laptop. Will keep it around for a while, to see if an update breaks it, but so far, I like what I see and how it feels on my hardware. Time will tell if it will remain stable.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-25
Votes: 17
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Used this operating system on think-pad still installed, accidentally got the notorious black screen of death, after used my smart-phone did some research online seems to be something to do with boot manager using light-dm and sddm. Went to redcore home page saw they had the fix, used it, it says after you fix light-dm and sddm to update the operating system. Had similar problems using Slackware 15 and their respins and forks such as zenwalk. If' redcore team in Romanian could iron out ( fix this bug error ) this bug on future.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2301
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-02-24
Votes: 1
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I have followed this distro since its "orion" version and I have been installing it on different computers: it does not work well on any. Sometimes it doesn't recognize the touchpad, sometimes it doesn't recognize the wifi, sometimes the graphics card doesn't work well with xorg or wayland, when other distros work perfectly on the computer. In short: I have installed the distro in different versions and on about 5 different computers: none of it works completely well. Otherwise, it's a good idea to make Gentoo simpler. I know "purists" want "pure" Linux. I only want Linux to work, not to waste time with the PC.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 2
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The ISO is over 4GB and three months old. I strongly recommend, to those who have slow Internet connections, and to those not familiar with Gentoo to pass this by until the developers put out a new ISO. If the Sisyphus program is interrupted for any reason trying to do a system update, and it's run again, it clears all packages it previously downloaded. It's so very frustrating, it was trying to get at least 3GB of stuff which took me nearly six hours. In the last 1-1/2 hours it obtained no more than 50 packages. With 50 more packages to get it suddenly crashed. Then when I went to run Sisyphus again it made like starting from the beginning.
Cannot use Discover instead because it's buggy and this is with any distro that features KDE.
It's understandable the team is small and are doing what they can. But one would have liked to keep this distro, with the "effects" of Calculate being able to provide a weekly ISO.
I'm not a great fan of KDE Plasma but the "bloody red" theme on this distro looks spectacular. I went further tweaking it because it seems the compositor was disabled and therefore window backgrounds could blend into each other.
Will need at least 32GB _on_ _the_ _main_ _partition_ in case of the folly I have just suffered.
by mnrv-ovrf-year-c
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-14
Votes: 5
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I have been a Redcore user for 4 years and I confirm that the distribution has made great progress, especially for installation.
By running a new installation of recent version 2201, I was confronted with a Calamares error: using another file system than ext4 the installation of the bootloader crashes (I had the same problem on other distributions this it is therefore not Redcore which is in question).
Another small black point that I can criticize is the lack of distribution-specific documentation. Ok, we can rely on the Gentoo documentation but a slightly developed Redcore wiki would not be a luxury.
Finally I can point out that Wayland and KDE still don't mix well, especially with an NVidia graphics card :-)
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-10-09
Votes: 4
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It is a pity that does not have support for other languages, the world is not reduced to English speech.They seem to be reduced to this field, which reduces the possibilities that more people can use Redcore.With that change they made, and safely, the number of users would increase greatly.In favor it has the incomparable base of Gentoo, pre -compilation, desktop entens, facility ease, etc.All that good job is limited by the use of a single language.For the rest, very few distributions have the versatility of Redcore.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-10-07
Votes: 0
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Gave it a rating 5 based on its usefulness to me. I did not bother installing Redcore as it would be no use to me personally, as I need RTSP streaming, so I am not saying Redcore is not a fine effort, it just no good to me.
I have only written this because in the past I have used Linux distro's and VLC as an Onvif security camera server option, however this time around, I am surprised how many distros, do not support RTSP streaming anymore.
Forget anything Debian and derivatives or Gentoo as well, it appears, I will now try Manjaro.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-10-06
Votes: 1
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I think the idea behind this distro is great: make gentoo very usable. It comes with many packages already precompiled and easy to install using Sisyphus. It is also easy to update packages and system. Among the precompiled packages, there is skype, google chrome, wine, etc. However, it hasn't worked on my new hardware: installer gives problems, distro too: almost nothing works on kde plasma (lenovo new intel i5); in another almost new and simple laptop it does not pick up the wifi either (hp with amd athon). On old imac doesn't recognize my wifi. It's a shame, because I really want to have this distro and use it as a daily controller, i love gentoo when gentoo is more easier.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2201
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-10-06
Votes: 0
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I had heard of this distro and wanted to give it a try as I am a fan of Gentoo but did not want to go through another 2-3 days of compiling everything like I did on another box. Thats the only reason I cant take Gentoo seriously, its not something you can install quickly restore and get back to work, plus trying to get full disk encryption is another story. But anyway I downloaded the iso and booted it up in a qemu vm got a red boot screen and selected the top option "start redcore" and it started up and went to a cli, ok so I saw that root login was just enter with no password so now I am at a root prompt, I was under the impression this was a graphical install but let me go to the documentation and verify where to go from here as I am familiar with Gentoo. I go to the install page and these were the instructions:
"There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page."
So I looked around and other links showed the same message so I thought let me try it one more time in case it was a fluke. I got the same result. Not sure what to think of this distro but I will tell you I am also testing out Calculate which is a binary Gentoo based distro and it is by far the best out there, it just works and they have done a fantastic job plus they do have documentation to get you up and running unlike Redcore so my advice is dont waste your time with this and go straight to Calculate.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-21
Votes: 6
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usually nothing gets a 10. I've tried and retried this distro and come away impressed. Either the speed or the stability wasn't there of something simple just didn't work, or it took too long to update or it took too long to build a package. Now it's slicker and quicker and the most stable distro I've ever felt (I mean it, you can literally feel how stable it is) It does what Debian won't and gives you the flexibility of Gentoo. I've replaced three machines Arch based distro with this because it looks better that the best arch based plasma. When I was last here I said that it would work on one of my laptops the lenovo t540' with i5 chip and not the t540 with the i7 chip. That problem seems to have been fixed. It takes a little while to update but when its over it's well worth it. This is now my daily driver.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2102
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-05-05
Votes: 5
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Thought I'd revisit this distro and am pleasantly surprised. No problem with install. It's gorgeous as usual but this time things actually work and its not as slow as molasses. You can feel the stability of the distro as you use it and it doesn't take a year to compile a program any more. Sisyphus has improved this distro drastically. I do believe I might be able to find a permanent home for this one. There are still a few programs that I would like to see in the package manager but I've got time. I actually like this version and will keep it around for a while.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-27
Votes: 4
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In my opinion there is none better.(2)
Even among other gentoo-derived distros, this is outstanding in terms of stability, speed and easy of use.
Don't judge it by the average score,
the latest version won't make anyone disappointed
TP X250 - it couldn't be better
Precision Workstation 3561 CTO - bluetooth mouse won't work, but I think it's of Kernel driver issue rather than distro packaging
My first distro was SLS, then Slack for a decade.
at work, mostly SuSE/RHEL for long
Tried Arch, Debian, Ubuntu*, and others (60+)
Even I'd tried to make my own from the scratch, but abandoned; The lesson learned was that I had to express my gratitude to all the distro developers ;-)
Finally, due to my laziness, I found myself enjoying Redcore KDE since last Oct.
Much appreciate its stability, the massive update has never failed
It's my daily driver now.
Please keep up the good work
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-04
Votes: 19
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Flawless OS.
Probably the Best Non-SystemD out there.
Never once failed installing correct Wifi card.
Ready for Nvidia Amd Intel Gpus.
Pure Hardened Binary Gentoo
Installs in minutes, even encrypted.
Even for Non Techies, it's really easy to use.
Plasma desktop, so for windows people out there, it has a lot of similarity, but so much better & flexible to modify it to the way you want.
Sisyphus pkg wrapper is so basic compared to emerge. Never fails to install pkg's regardless if a binary or source pkg.
Every pkg listed Gentoo's portage is available in Redcore. If not showing up "sisyphus-gui" which are binaries, then search with "sisyphus search 'packagename' -e" this will search portage for gentoo source pkg's. then install the pkg with "sisyphus install 'packagename' -e" The "-e" is for ebuild (from source).
Great help available at
LiberaChat
chanel, " #RedcoreLinux "
Server irc.libera.chat
Port 6667
Enjoy,
I'm not very technical, but it's my go to stable OS. In my opinion there is none better. I've tried most of the Debian's. alot of Arch's, countless other's. For ease of use & stability this is the one. It maybe a small distro, but it's been around for a number of years.
Those that are technical, that try it & like it, contact the developer let him you know it's strengths weakness, if you could contribute in a technical way to to refine & improve Redcore , I'm sure he would appreciate your help.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2102
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-29
Votes: 10
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GREAT !
simple fast install, very stable, easy to use Gentoo installs in minutes. The emerge wrapper "sisyphus" is so easy to use & fully comprehend, unlike emerge. little tip when searching for packages if it's not showing up as binary with " sisypus search pkg" add "-e " and it will look for ebuilds in gentoo repositories.Packages install much faster than using gentoo's repositories. stick to the sisyphus commands NOT emerge. This Os is a winner !
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2102
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-27
Votes: 0
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good,fast system. for me there is a problem:difficult setting pppoe. Thanks.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-08-03
Votes: 7
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Being fairly new to Linux this is what I have been looking for. My friend and Linux mentor, who is a hard core Funtoo power user even likes it. He told me I could quit looking for a daily driver and stick to this one.
The nature of the beast will bring me up to the next level.
A big thank you to all involved with the development of this Distribution.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-06-19
Votes: 7
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After being actively targeted by MITM attacks for a few months, Redcore Linux is the first and only distro that runs the patched packages that block them!! This is by itself a GREAT plus on which I can build on.
The biggest cons are the lack of documentation and the few available packages.
Anyway, a regular user who has no special needs (for servers) will feel gladly at home with KDE, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, LibreOffice, .... and a bunch of other goodies.
Definitely a distro to try and install. Highly suggested. Redcore Linux is here to stay and grow in popularity.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101
Rating: 4
Date: 2021-06-14
Votes: 1
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I have always wanted to love Redcore, but it looks like that Redcore does not love my hardware :). I have long been trying to get it work, since 1908 version, attracted by the developer's praiseworthy goal: "bringing the power of Gentoo to the masses". Indeed, the distro offers a graphical software manager (sisyphus) and binary packages, saving you hours of compiling (that should be the standard Gentoo way) and, importantly, is systemd-free. The desktop environment is KDE and the default theme is one of the most beautiful ones that I have seen so far. The big problem is always tge same: after few times, the system won't boot, hanging infinitely on random services. My 2 cents is that maybe this distro should be tested on a broader spectrum of hardware, though I don't think I have any unusual architecture.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-24
Votes: 11
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Redcore has been my main operating system since 3/13/21. I have not had a single crash and everything runs and performs well on my computers. It takes a long period of time to update, but it functions without any missing software or drivers. When updating with Sisyphus, be sure to write down and do whatever the text messages tell you to do and you will always have a smooth running and updated system.
Most likely, the installation will crash the first time you attempt to install it. Don't worry, just restart the install program and it should repair itself and install.
Redcore is an automated Gentoo installation program that identifies your computer's processors, video cards, printers, and all. Basically, the installation program is doing what would take an average person, with experience, a day or more to complete. Best of all, if Redcore installs it, it is needed.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-03-07
Votes: 6
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Fired up Redcore from a USB stick. As others have noted, no graphical programs functioned once I activated WIFI, including the installer and terminal. So much for a live session. Rebooted and without WIFI the graphical stuff worked fine, so I brought up the installer and installed Redcore on my 8 year old Toshiba laptop, keeping my previous /home partition.
After the install everything worked beautifully. KDE Plasma was not familiar to me; it's pretty intuitive and quite attractive. The machine is faster and more responsive than in it's previous life on Ubuntu with Gnome - very pleased with performance and feel.
I've played with Sisyphus in both the gui and from the command line; downloads are a little slow but worked seamlessly, updating 300 packages in about 45 minutes after the install. For fun I also installed scrypt from source Gentoo-style using emerge - it was awe-inspiring to watch.
Two weeks in and I'm very happy with Redcore so far! I'm planning to try Gentoo in the future but am intimidated by its complexity. Redcore is an exceptionally friendly introduction to the Gentoo world, but well worth keeping as a desktop OS on its own merits.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 1
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I've been using this for daily system on my laptop and I'm really enjoying it.
Plasma upgraded and very configurable
Sisyphus apparently has been rewritten and works great.
The system went through a seemingly major package upgrade and was very smooth. No problems in sisyphus.
I've been extremely happy and this is a beta!
Please give it a try. Will be well worth the effort!
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-02-03
Votes: 9
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Simply the Best !
I tried Ubuntu and some spins of it, Linux Mint, fedora, manjaro, debian and many more distros, but nothing works as good as redcore. Easy to configure, take a look at the wonderful gentoo wiki, easy to use and you can customize everything.
The only thing, so far, that does not work, is sisyphus. Tried to install opera browser, but it does not work. Used "emerge" to install it and it works. So I am using emerge for installing progs/apps, no problem.
Conclusion: If you are searching for a fast and stable linux-system, try redcore, you will like it. If you want to have a secure system, redcore is a good basis to start from, but you still have some work to do like you have to do with every other distro.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2101-beta
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-01-25
Votes: 11
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Failed to boot on my laptop via USB stick burnt via Rufus on W!0. "File system unknown"
Failed to load successfully on Virtualbox.
Gentto, Red Hat, no difference, endless loading's, reboot, load to the red flash screen, then endless cycling of the same.
Did eventually work on VMware VM using Red Hat as a base choice, Gentoo did not work however.
When I was able to see it, it looks like a Deepen colourscape. Very good colours and icons.
The KDE experience was no better or worse than other KDE Distro's
Just use Kubuntu, and save yourself the time. Filled in several hours for me on a rainy day.
First experience for me on Gentoo, so experienced Users will know how to make it work I expect.
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2004
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-17
Votes: 9
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Amazing, found passwords@ redcorelinux.org/download.Open-rc,Pure Gentoo, easy Calamares install,it's real power comes with portage wrapper "sisyphus" or sisypus-gui.Every pkg in Gentoo is available either binary/source pkg. Install binary with sisyphus install pkg,source pkg use sisyphus install pkg --ebuild, read sisyphus --help.No need to use emerge flags.Pkg build so easily.This alpha it's very stable.The rolling release needed to be rebuilt due to Gentoo announcing new build's that nearly broke RC.So with this new build, it will be to sustain the rolling release.Use this LiveOS as installer, not asan OS It freezes, you will not have issues installing Redcore. Easy& stable Gentoo you will come across,
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Project: Redcore Linux
Version: 2004
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-01-12
Votes: 7
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It may be amazing but I"ll never know because the password doesn't work. As usual it looks pretty and as usual I can't get into it. I will never understand why any developer who wants you to look at his distro ask you for a password. It's got to be the most idiotic thing I've ever encountered. Yes i did look up the password from their site and no it doesn't work. I was looking forward to trying this because last time I tried redcore it was the slowest thing on earth. I had hoped to see some improvement. Silly me!!!
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