I always thought creating your own rolling distro with Gentoo was precisely the ...

euank · on July 13, 2022

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.

antoncohen · on July 13, 2022

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

eliaspro · on July 13, 2022

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

kaeso · on July 13, 2022

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

tyingq · on July 13, 2022

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.