[Overclock Reviews]

Gentoo GNU/Linux

Description:
Gentoo is many things. It is a community-based distribution of Linux. It is a package management philosophy. It is also a non-profit organization. It is also a breed of penguin.

 

[carrotman]

Best Distro (IMO)

review by carrotman

A GNU/Linux distro that respects your freedom and ability to do things yourself. You compile every program from source using a powerful tool, emerge. It is very stable if you know what you are doing, as with almost any other Linux distro, and takes very little disk space. Compiling everything from source speeds up everything you do, although not by very much, every little bit matters. Installing Gentoo takes some time, but is very easy using the handbook found on the website. You even build your own kernel custom tailored to your exact needs. I would recommend Gentoo to only advanced users and for systems like laptops or servers. Using it on a desktop computer is fine too, but the lack of games or windows programs is a big problem for some (I know overclock.net likes their games). Just try it out for yourself and see. This should really help a lot. Remember to read the manual

Pros	Cons
emerge, customizablility, EXACTLY what you want it to be	Takes some time to set up

Ratings

Overall

5

 

[Rookie1337]

Best Distro (IMO)

review by carrotman

Since Linux is kind of Linux...there can be no "best" of it. But there are merits to Gentoo in many people's eyes. Glad to see others spreading the Linux OSes around. I hope one day to have the dedication and time to set up Gentoo properly.

 

[P3c4h2]

Best Distro (IMO)

review by carrotman

This is not really a review and could be said about any distro.
I don't understand why the review section is here if there is no quality control.

 

[s74r1]

Best Distro (IMO)

review by carrotman

Gentoo isn't what it used to be. IMO it's broken, buggy, and suffers from an increasingly smaller userbase which means bugs don't get found/fixed as fast. I used to be a gentoo fan since 2004 but i finally woke up and smelled the coffee... it was masochistic to try and maintain a gentoo system and dilusional to expect things to "just work" like windows or OSX

 

[evermooingcow]

Best Distro (IMO)

review by carrotman

My OS of choice at the moment. Usually does what I want it to do and only what I want it to do. Good learning tool even if you don't intend to use it.