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Why use Gentoo?
Optimization (
packages can be compiled for a specific CPU,
ex.: -march=haswell )
Customizaton (
USE flags
)
Lack of trust towards binary packages provided by a binary distro
Ability to "package" almost anything (
ebuilds
)
Recompiling software from git
when new changes are pushed
("live" 9999 ebuilds)
OpenRC
- lightweight and flexible init system
eselect
- system configuration framework (a bit similar to dpkg-reconfigure)
webapp-config
- web application installation framework
XPAK
- new way of
binary packge
distrubution
Free as in freedom (
ACCEPT_LICENSE
can exclude nonfree software )
Is a Linux (
not necessarly
GNU ) distribution
Hobby
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