Gentoo
Gentoo Linux is a versatile, fast, highly configurable and completely free Linux and FreeBSD distribution geared towards developers and network professionals.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- Rolling Release
- Portable
- Linux-based
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
Tags
- gnu-linux
Gentoo News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is Gentoo?
Gentoo Linux is a versatile, fast, highly configurable and completely free Linux and FreeBSD distribution geared towards developers and network professionals.
Gentoo is a rolling release distro (continuously developing, doesn't have versions) where mostly all parts of the system are being compiled from source.
Gentoo information
Developed by
The Gentoo Foundation Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.8Alternatives
190 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Simply the best and most secure. No need to trust a second party for binary code
The latest software sources are patched to work for many different architectures and system configurations. When there is a broken update, it can be reported to the maintainers at Gentoo's bugtracker before upstream fixes the bug.
I can tailor my system to my needs, USE flags allow me to opt-in or out of certain application features, Portage itself is also a great package manager, and it's easy to make your own custom repository.
Gentoo is good with updates!
Because it can be configured for me only.
it is like a rolling plan, it update's instead of new installation
I can tune it deeper and make it elegant, fast. Usually after installing Xubuntu I removed games, office, Pidgin, etc, but Gentoo is bare bones with good package management and community. Like you can compile JS library and get only what you want - with Gentoo you compile all your software (it easy and compiles automatically on install).