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Why use Gentoo?

• Optimization (pkgs 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)
• Free as in freedom (ACCEPT_LICENSE can exclude nonfree software)
• Is a Linux (not necessarly GNU) distribution
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