Gentoo

Lesson Content

Overview Gentoo offers ridiculous flexibility with the operating system at a price. It’s made for advanced users who don’t mind getting their hands dirty with the system.

Package Management Gentoo uses its own package management, Portage. The Portage package management is very modular and easy to maintain, which plays a big part in the operating system as a whole being very flexible.

Configurability If you’re just getting started with Linux and want to take a more difficult path, I’d choose Gentoo or Arch Linux as your distribution.

Uses Great for desktop and laptop.

Exercise

If you’re interested in having Gentoo as your operating system, head over to the installation section and give it a try: https://www.gentoo.org/

Quiz Questions

# What package management system does Gentoo use? > 1. Many Gentoo packages can pull the latest "head" version from a version control system such as git, to work on an upstream package, or if the latest version is needed for some reason. > 2. It is often possible to have multiple versions of packages installed at the same time, which makes testing against multiple versions of compilers, or interpreters, easy. > 3. It is arguably one of the best package manager out there. 1. [ ] apt 2. [ ] RPM 3. [ ] Pacman 4. [x] Portage