eWeek: Gentoo, Linux? Yes, Sometimes

"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..."

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