Sunday, March 2, 2025

Gentoo Linux

This is a distribution I never tired but I am downloading it today.
It is a Live Distribution. 
Yes, it boots up with a Live USB and it is KDE which I do not fancy.
One cannot download any new applications as is Netrunner which has Synaptic Package Manager for me to download Box Utility and AbiWord.
By the way it has Xournel.
 
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux Live USB running KDE
Developer    Gentoo Foundation
Written in    C, Perl, sh, and Python
OS family    Linux (Unix-like)
Working state    Current
Source model    Open source
Initial release    31 March 2002; 22 years ago
Repository    
gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git Edit this at Wikidata
Update method    Rolling release
Package manager    Portage
Platforms    IA-32, x86-64, PA-RISC (HPPA), PowerPC 32/64, SPARC 64-bit, DEC Alpha, ARM 32/64, MIPS, RISC-V 32/64, m68k, loong, s390, s390x
Kernel type    Monolithic (Linux kernel)
Userland    GNU, With support for non-GNU userlands
Default
user interface    CLI, with support for various window managers and desktop environments
License    Free software
Official website    www.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux (pronounced /ˈdʒɛntuː/ JEN-too[3]) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the specific type of computer. Precompiled binaries are available for some packages.
Gentoo runs on a wide variety of processor architectures.

Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, and flexible. Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution because of its adaptability, in that the majority of its users have configurations and sets of installed programs which are unique to the system and the applications they use.

Gentoo Linux is named after the Gentoo Penguin, the fastest swimming species of penguin
The name was chosen to reflect the potential speed improvements of machine-specific optimizing, which is a major feature of Gentoo.

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