eWeek: Gentoo, Linux? Yes, Sometimes May 1, 2006, 19 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5273 reads) (Other stories by Jason Brooks)
"Gentoo is a Linux distribution that succeeds in striking a balance between fine-grained configurability and ongoing manageability.
"In contrast to popular Linux distributions such as Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Debian GNU/Linux that are delivered as collections of precompiled binaries, Gentoo Linux users build the software that makes up their Gentoo systems from source. In this way, Gentoo preserves for administrators a broader range of software configuration options, since many choices must be made at compile time..."
