[gentoo-dev-announce] RAP with Gentoo Anywhere You Want

[gentoo-dev-announce] RAP with Gentoo Anywhere You Want

[Benda Xu]

Hi Everyone,

I am pleased to announce RAP, a project to run Gentoo anywhere you want.

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc

RAP (Rap Ain't Prefix) complements Prefix with libc.  Project Prefix[1]
let you install Gentoo in a directory offset with normal user privilege
on a variety of systems.  Thanks to a standalone libc, RAP expands the
horizon of Gentoo Prefix to Android[2], Debian multiarch and systems
with old/buggy libc.

We support any system with a Linux kernel.  No GNU/Linux distribution is
known to fail RAP[3].  

If
  you are a normal computer cluster user and want to use cutting edge
  tools, but your administrator is too conservative;
or if
  you are a computer cluster administrator keeping the system absolutely
  stable, but your users are constantly asking for new software;
or if
  you are new to GNU/Linux and want to educate yourself with Gentoo, but
  are not confident to re-partition and dual-boot;
of if
  you are an experienced unix user and want to evaluate Gentoo;
or if
  you are compiling a lot on your phone, tablet, router, television or
  network attached storage and looking for an automated way;
or if
  you want to explore x32-abi or musl-libc but your favorite
  distribution does not support it[5];
try out Gentoo RAP!  It will make your computing easier and more
enjoyable.


We are working on a more robust boostrap featuring cross-compilation,
and a complete merge with mainstream Gentoo.  RAP can be ported to more
libc's and ABI's.  You are welcomed to join our team if you have a
shared vision.

This project was initiated by Ruud (redlizard) Koolen and Benda
(heroxbd) Xu, and was mentored by Luca (lu_zero) Barbato in Google
Summer of Code 2013[4].  We would like to thank our fellow developers
for their support and early testers, including but not limited to xdej,
scateu, yangsheng6810, prefixer, yegle, nanikata, Steven Trogdon, Marko
Vendelin.

Cheers,
Benda

1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix
2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android
3. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc#Tested_Distributions
4. https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2013/heroxbd/5659014549471232
5. Feasible, but not implemented yet.