Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Rolling Distributions (or how I came to love Gentoo)
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> | After wiping my drive I started the installation which went very
> | smoothly. For the first day I spent a lot of time reading about portage
> | and learning my way around Gentoo. After the first week I was more than
> | comfortable with it. The most exciting part of it for me was being able
> | to keep my system update to date and built the way I want with little
> | effort. Packages built for traditional distributions are precompiled and
> | built against libraries and feature the developers of the distro have
> | chosen. So say for example ?Distro A? builds ?Package A? with features
> | that rely on ?Library C? and you want to use it without those features
> | then you?re out of luck as far as packages go. Gentoo allows me to
> | decide how my packages get compiled. From compiler optimizations to
> | enabled features I stay in control of everything.
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> http://www.mikanotoko.org/blog/?p=22
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> Making Gentoo Even Harder: 64-bit Hardened Gentoo
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> | Now that you have a spiffy new Hardened Gentoo AMD64 laptop, its time to
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> | off to your friend. I suggest app-admin/paxtest in 'blackhat' mode, or
> | this script from the trapkit blog (which requires dev-libs/elfutils).
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http://kutulumike.blogspot.com/2009/08/making-gentoo-even-harder-64-bit.html
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> Recent:
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> Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04
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> | Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been
> | committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that
> | need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant
> | community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the
> | beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin.
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> http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090722-anniversary.xml4
Gentoo... not for everyone, but PERFECT for me. It's been the best linux
solution for everything I do. The only thing that comes close is LFS.
Cheers all...
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