Gentoo Linux
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Gentoo Linux is a version of the GNU/Linux operating system. It was created by Daniel Robbins. The project and its products are named after the Gentoo penguin.
Development
Gentoo Linux uses a package management system called Portage. Portage is like the BSD ports collection. Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user's machine. Packages are normally built from source code, continuing the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some large software packages are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures.
Although originally designed for the x86 architecture, it has been ported to many others and currently runs on the x86, x86-64, IA-64, PA-RISC; PowerPC, PowerPC 970, SPARC64, MIPS, DEC Alpha, System Z/s390, PS3 Cell Processor and SuperH architectures.[1] Official support for 32bit Sparc hardware has been dropped.[2]
Package
Gentoo's official software package repository[3] includes, for example, UNetbootin.[4]
Other pages
References
- ↑ http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2007.0/2007.0-press-release.txt
- ↑ http://devmanual.gentoo.org/archs/sparc/index.html
- ↑ ArchLinux.org, "Official repositories," excerpt, "A software repository is a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer"; retrieved 2012-6-7.
- ↑ Gentoo, Package unetbootin;retrieved 2012-6-7.
Other websites
- The official website of the Gentoo Project
- gentoo-wiki.com - An unofficial yet heavily used wiki about Gentoo
- Gentoo at DistroWatch