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It will tell you which kernel modules you need to add and which USE flags to add. It usually tells you exactly what you need to know. The documentation in Gentoo is extremely good. For example, app-editors/emacsВ can optionally build with JPEG image support. Use flags allow you to enable or disable certain features of a package.

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How Gentoo configures software Gentoo Linux gives allows you to control how, and with what support, programs are installed by using USE flags to describe how software should be installed. The ebuild files describes how the source should be configured and installed, depending on variables set in /etc/nf. It is primarily used for installing packages, and emerge can automatically handle any dependencies a desired package has. The emerge tool is the most important utility for accessing the features of Portage from theВ command line. The command is customizable with many options and modifiers. The emergeВ command-line tool is the heart of Portage. GentooвЂ™s portage build system is highly configurable which means that two Gentoo installations done by different people will be very different in terms of how they work and what features the installed packages have. In short, FreeBSD ports became the inspiration for GentooвЂ™s portage system. It is similar to theВ BSD-styleВ package managementВ known asВ ports, and was originally designed withВ FreeBSDвЂ™s ports in mind. Portage is the officialВ package managerВ andВ distribution systemВ for Gentoo. It simplifies Gentoo updates and enables user to build their entire system from source, with complete control over which packages are or arenвЂ™t installed.

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The priority of a consumer oriented operating system is a quick install and a running system that works.В In contrast, most of the key Gentoo packages are compiled from source to the specification of the user and the hardware, and every installation is unique.ДЄt the heart of Gentoo is a unique software distribution system called Portage.

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Most Linux distributions come with the code precompiled. The installation may take hours or days but the pay off is that it only happens once. Then all software you want beyond the very base system has to beВ compiled.ДЄ well-driven installation will result in faster code with less fluff and bloat.

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The steps are to partition your system and unpack a вЂњstage 3вЂќ archive with a base system. But Gentoo does not have any easy to use graphical installer.В The installation is instead done by following a step by step handbook and it is time-consuming and not very friendly. GentooвЂ™s download page offers a mimimal installation CD and a hybrid ISO which contains a graphical live Linux environment. It is very important to know the technical specifications and be familiar with your computerвЂ™s hardware before installing Gentoo Linux, because this knowledge will guide some decisions you will make during the installation. The installation of a Gentoo Linux system differs much from the installation methods of more desktop-oriented operating systems, and popular Linux distributions.

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Robbins has gone his own way, and now runs Funtoo, which he sees as a hacker-oriented upgrade of Gentoo. Then, he stepped down as chief architect of the project, wanting to spend more time with his family. He transferred all copyrights and trademarks to it. In 2004, Daniel set up the non-profit Gentoo Foundation. Gentoo Linux 1.0 was released on April Fools day, 2002. This episode led to Gentoo development being influenced by FreeBSDвЂ™s ports system.ДЄt least one version of Enoch was distributed: version 0.75, in December 1999. Over time, Daniel Robbins and Enoch gained a team of developers, and Enoch began to evolve into Gentoo Linux, but not before problems with gcc, and a posix thread bug in glibc and the Linux 2.2 series of kernels, led Robbins to abandon Gentoo during the latter half of 1999 and dip into the very different world of FreeBSD. The goal was to create a distribution without precompiled binaries that was tuned to the hardware and only included required programs. Gentoo Linux was initially created by Daniel Robbins, a programmer, writer and consultant from Albuquerque, New Mexico,В as the Enoch LinuxВ distribution. Obviously the name was chosen to reflect the potential speed improvements of machine-specific optimization, which is a major feature of Gentoo. This powerful Linux distribution is named after the fastest-swimming penguin, the Gentoo. In addition to, Gentoo is for the users who want to reach under the hood, get their hands dirty, and learn. It is a distribution for perfectionists and hobbyists who want to know how their system works and how it gets that way, digging deeper into its configuration. Certainly Gentoo isnвЂ™t a distro for new users.

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