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LinuxDevices: New Kid on Embedded Linux Block–Gentoo

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“A project to create embedded versions of Gentoo Linux has
achieved preliminary releases on x86, MIPS, PPC, and ARM. The
releases include native core system binaries, cross-platform
toolchains, and, for x86, an optional hardened toolchain. The
year-old project needs developers to help add cross-compile
awareness to source packages.

“Gentoo is a popular desktop and server Linux distribution, in
which core system components are distributed as
architecture-specific, native binaries, while all non-essential
software packages are compiled from source, using a ‘portage’
system similar to the ‘ports’ system in FreeBSD…”

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