Introducing Linux Distros

© Jose Dieguez Castro 2016

Jose Dieguez Castro, Introducing Linux Distros, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1392-6_12

12. Gentoo Linux

Jose Dieguez Castro¹ 

(1)A Coruña, Spain

Gentoo Linux is the quintessential custom Linux distro. In fact, it’s so adaptable that the Gentoo people prefer to call it a metadistribution. As with Arch Linux, Gentoo can be whatever you need it to be. It’s also a rolling release distro, but it goes a step further; you can build every package from source code to optimize them for your system and needs. Its popularity has taken the opposite trajectory of Arch Linux’s: it was once a very popular distribution but this has decreased over the past few years. However, it still has a strong and loyal community behind it.

History

In April of ...