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    Gentoo is by far my favorite operating system, but it isn't one that I would recommend for anyone. Originally, I enjoyed Gentoo for its package management system, which is styled after FreeBSD's "Ports Collection" (which explains why it is called "portage" as it was... more

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  • Reviewed by chipsandsalsa on Feb 20 2009, 10:27am

    back in gentoo's glory days, i'd spend a week compiling my system from stage 1, and learned a lot about linux. for me, gentoo has lost it's appeal. i dont want to spend all fucking day compiling gnome or openoffice, and to be honest my ubuntu install is just as fast and everything just works. i'll agree that ubuntu is a bit bloated, but it takes far less time removing packages in ubuntu than it does to set up a nice desktop environment under gentoo. portage is king of package managers though. i love it

  • Rated by tueffel-achtein on Jan 27 2009, 4:54am

    Probably the best distro. Gives you all advantages of compiling things yourself, but without the disadvantages (like finding updates and patches yourself).

  • Rated by jklai on Jul 30 2008, 7:40pm

    Cheers to Gentoo. Very positive experience...learned a lot during the installation and definitely recommend it to anyone willing to go through at least a stage3 install. I'm not too keen on the whole livecd and gui installer though...

  • Reviewed by laucky on Mar 27 2008, 6:33am

    Gentoo is a very good distro for the advanced user. It's active, but sadly only as active as a grandma dying. It might be in its last breaths.

  • Reviewed by HellsBovine on Jan 21 2008, 1:24pm

    Gentoo IRC channels = elitists who like to hear the sound of RTFM over and over again...

  • Rated by phunatic on Dec 02 2007, 9:10am

    still the best linux distro if you're not a manager or grandma ;)! tried suse, then redhat, this is finally what i wanted. probably debian needs some credit.

  • Rated by Dolphin-Dancer on Nov 13 2007, 5:32pm

    Tux again... ...makes four - so far!