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OSNews: Gentoo Linux: Your Friendly Quick Installation Guide

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2004

“Any Gentoo user knows how great this distro is. Any Gentoo user
also knows the amount of time it takes to install this distro, and
to damage your partition is just not an affordable option. I’ve
managed to take the standard 20-30 hour installation and bring it
down to about 2-3 hours of time. This guide will try and lead you
into the correct direction of the Gentoo installation. It will NOT
give you all the apps, Window Managers and so on you are looking
for in the distro, but it will get you to the point where it will
be very easy to have an operating computer while getting those
things.

“In general, this guide will do several things for you…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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