Moving from CachyOS

Hi everyone,

I just switched over from CachyOS, and I have a few questions about how packages are managed here.

I know this distro uses the Cachy kernel, but I’m curious about the userland packages. Are the standard RPM packages also compiled with aggressive optimization flags (like -march=native, O3, or LTO/PGO) similar to what CachyOS does with its repository?

What kind of performance differences or system responsiveness should I expect compared to my previous setup on CachyOS?

Lastly, how often are application packages (RPMs) updated here compared to upstream?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

ragloo.gloo34 said:

Hi everyone,

I just switched over from CachyOS, and I have a few questions about how packages are managed here.

I know this distro uses the Cachy kernel, but I’m curious about the userland packages. Are the standard RPM packages also compiled with aggressive optimization flags (like -march=native, O3, or LTO/PGO) similar to what CachyOS does with its repository?

What kind of performance differences or system responsiveness should I expect compared to my previous setup on CachyOS?

Lastly, how often are application packages (RPMs) updated here compared to upstream?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

We just gained our own repo at https://repo.rakuos.org We will be offering v3/v4 optimized packages soon but take a while to setup all the CI/CD to have everything tracked and then uploaded to our repo. atm working on a new Bootc installer to get rid of anaconda then will start getting packages building. Upstream sources are updated as soon they are in our repo, and once we start packaging our optimized rpms they will be updated as soon as new versions are detected

Last updated 1 day ago

Thank you @tohur for sharing this exciting update; it is incredibly useful to know !

Best of luck with this highly promising and original distribution project. Building custom CI/CD pipelines and a new Bootc installer to replace Anaconda is impressive work, and the v3/v4 package optimization sounds fantastic.

I sincerely wish you and the team huge success with the launch and development of RakuOS!