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I always thought creating your own rolling distro with Gentoo was precisely the best case use of portage, but I’ve never seen anyone do it. I must be missing something.

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Coincidentally, Google has sorta done that too!

ChromiumOS/ChromeOS is built using portage, and is certainly rolling release. It's not really a traditional linux distro, but it's something.

Container-Optimized OS is based on Chromium OS and is more of a traditional Linux, in the sense that is runs on servers.

https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs

...and so was CoreOS before the equally named company was acquired by RedHat.

In a funny twist of events, the author of the grandparent comment above yours was indeed building that OS (Container Linux) at CoreOS :)

Guessing because a fair amount of stuff is tested, packaged, or unintentionally tied to how either Debian, Ubuntu or RedHat does things (or places things, etc). So anything outside that universe doesn't get popular.

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