https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Gentoo&feed=atom&action=historyGentoo - Revision history2024-03-28T09:43:55ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.1https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Gentoo&diff=52767&oldid=prevALIAS at 14:10, 6 December 20222022-12-06T14:10:11Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Because of this highly manual approach to installing the system, always keep in mind that installing Gentoo will probably be literally the longest operating system install in your life, EVER. '''You have been warned.''' Take your time when installing Gentoo, expect the installation to be a wild ride of problems, achievements and milestones, and don't try to rush it. If you're a NEET with literally nothing else to do you might be able to rush a Gentoo installation in at least 3 hours; if you're a busy person with a day job and friends, it might take you a day or two to set everything up.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Because of this highly manual approach to installing the system, always keep in mind that installing Gentoo will probably be literally the longest operating system install in your life, EVER. '''You have been warned.''' Take your time when installing Gentoo, expect the installation to be a wild ride of problems, achievements and milestones, and don't try to rush it. If you're a NEET with literally nothing else to do you might be able to rush a Gentoo installation in at least 3 hours; if you're a busy person with a day job and friends, it might take you a day or two to set everything up.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To make yourself an idea of what awaits you (and in case you fell for the "INSTALL GENTOO" maymay): on a 2022 mid-end desktop with 16 GB of RAM and a Ryzen 4800H, setting up the minimum system (the Stage 3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour or two, compiling the kernel <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for </del>a few minutes (assuming you're cheating with {{ic|genkernel}} instead of undertaking a manual compilation and fixing an endless series of kernel panics), finishing your basic installation another hour, installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo), and installing Firefox an hour at <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">least</del>, while the entire software compiles from source code. Keep in mind Chromium takes <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fives time that long </del>to compile. That's all assuming you're the luckiest person in the world and don't run into a single problem, pitfall or having to mess with a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another 1 or 2 hours. Oh, and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4 </del>hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk with pseudorandom data using a fast drive filling method because /dev/urandom is too slow for this task.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To make yourself an idea of what awaits you (and in case you fell for the "INSTALL GENTOO" maymay): on a 2022 mid-end desktop with 16 GB of RAM and a Ryzen 4800H, setting up the minimum system (the Stage 3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour or two, compiling the kernel a few minutes (assuming you're cheating with {{ic|genkernel}} instead of undertaking a manual compilation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, configuring all sorts of settings, </ins>and fixing an endless series of kernel panics), finishing your basic installation another hour, installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo), and installing Firefox an hour at <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">best</ins>, while the entire software compiles from source code. Keep in mind Chromium takes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">five times longer </ins>to compile. That's all assuming you're the luckiest person in the world and don't run into a single problem, pitfall or having to mess with a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another 1 or 2 hours. Oh, and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2 </ins>hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk with pseudorandom data using a fast drive filling method because /dev/urandom is too slow for this task.</div></td></tr>
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</table>ALIAShttps://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Gentoo&diff=52766&oldid=prevALIAS at 14:07, 6 December 20222022-12-06T14:07:50Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most distros include some form of graphical installer. Gentoo is installed by manually partitioning a device, extracting a stage3 tarball, extracting a portage snapshot, compiling a kernel, installing a bootloader, and then configuring various files that are needed to get it up and running. In those regards, it is somewhat similar to installing Debian with debootstrap, Fedora with febootstrap, or an Arch Linux install.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most distros include some form of graphical installer. Gentoo is installed by manually partitioning a device, extracting a stage3 tarball, extracting a portage snapshot, compiling a kernel, installing a bootloader, and then configuring various files that are needed to get it up and running. In those regards, it is somewhat similar to installing Debian with debootstrap, Fedora with febootstrap, or an Arch Linux install.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Because of this highly manual approach to installing the system, always keep in mind that installing Gentoo will probably be literally the longest operating system install in your life, EVER. '''You have been warned.''' Take your time when installing Gentoo, expect the installation to be a wild ride of problems, achievements and milestones, and don't try to rush it. If you're a NEET with literally nothing else to do you might be able to rush a Gentoo installation in at least <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">24 </del>hours; if you're a busy person with a day job and friends, it might take you <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">over an entire week </del>to set everything up.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Because of this highly manual approach to installing the system, always keep in mind that installing Gentoo will probably be literally the longest operating system install in your life, EVER. '''You have been warned.''' Take your time when installing Gentoo, expect the installation to be a wild ride of problems, achievements and milestones, and don't try to rush it. If you're a NEET with literally nothing else to do you might be able to rush a Gentoo installation in at least <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3 </ins>hours; if you're a busy person with a day job and friends, it might take you <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a day or two </ins>to set everything up.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To make yourself an idea of what awaits you (and in case you fell for the "INSTALL GENTOO" maymay): on a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2014 </del>mid-end <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quad core laptop CPU </del>with <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">8 </del>GB of RAM, setting up the minimum system (the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stage-</del>3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour, compiling the kernel <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an hour and </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">half </del>(assuming you're cheating with {{ic|genkernel}} instead of undertaking a manual compilation and fixing an endless series of kernel panics), finishing your basic installation another hour, installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo), and installing <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Google Chrome or </del>Firefox at least <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2 hours each </del>while the entire software compiles from source code. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">And </del>that's assuming you're the luckiest person in the world and don't run into a single problem, pitfall or having to mess with a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4 </del>hours. Oh, and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another 4 hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk with pseudorandom data using a fast drive filling method because /dev/urandom is too slow for this task.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To make yourself an idea of what awaits you (and in case you fell for the "INSTALL GENTOO" maymay): on a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2022 </ins>mid-end <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">desktop </ins>with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">16 </ins>GB of RAM <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and a Ryzen 4800H</ins>, setting up the minimum system (the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stage </ins>3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or two</ins>, compiling the kernel <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">few minutes </ins>(assuming you're cheating with {{ic|genkernel}} instead of undertaking a manual compilation and fixing an endless series of kernel panics), finishing your basic installation another hour, installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo), and installing Firefox <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an hour </ins>at least<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>while the entire software compiles from source code. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Keep in mind Chromium takes fives time </ins>that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">long to compile. That</ins>'s <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">all </ins>assuming you're the luckiest person in the world and don't run into a single problem, pitfall or having to mess with a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1 or 2 </ins>hours. Oh, and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another 4 hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk with pseudorandom data using a fast drive filling method because /dev/urandom is too slow for this task.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Hyperhttps://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Gentoo&diff=48845&oldid=prevGazorpion: url lead to a dead end, i fixed it2020-03-10T11:33:02Z<p>url lead to a dead end, i fixed it</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>CloverOS is a system made by /tech/ and /g/ user Jesus (also of the 8chan [[IRC]]. It hosts its own repository of binaries, and has a customized version of FVWM as its default desktop environment. It has many preinstalled binaries for the 8chan user in mind. It has become popular enough to have independent reviews, and its own entry on DistroWatch.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>CloverOS is a system made by /tech/ and /g/ user Jesus (also of the 8chan [[IRC]]. It hosts its own repository of binaries, and has a customized version of FVWM as its default desktop environment. It has many preinstalled binaries for the 8chan user in mind. It has become popular enough to have independent reviews, and its own entry on DistroWatch.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">To make yourself an idea of what awaits you (and in case you fell for the "INSTALL GENTOO" maymay): on </ins>a 2014 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mid</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">end </ins>quad core <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">laptop </ins>CPU with 8 GB of RAM, setting up the minimum system (the stage-3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour, compiling the kernel an hour and a half (assuming you're cheating with {{ic|genkernel<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}} </ins>instead of undertaking a manual compilation and fixing an endless series of kernel panics), finishing your basic installation another hour, installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo), and installing Google Chrome or Firefox ''at least 20 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hours </ins>each'' while the entire software compiles from source code. And that's assuming you're the luckiest person in the world and don't run into a single problem, pitfall or having to mess with a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another 4 hours. Oh, and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4 </ins>hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk with pseudorandom data using <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a fast drive filling method because /dev/urandom is too slow for this task</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gentoo Linux''' is a source-based [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">GNU/</del>Linux]] distribution. It has a stigma for being a difficult distribution to use, and is often recommended as a solution to any problem on /g/. After all, if the person asking the question could install [http://funroll-loops.info/ Gentoo], they could probably figure out whatever problem they're having in the first place. If you are considering installing Gentoo, the best resource available to you is the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Handbook].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gentoo Linux''' is a source-based [[Linux]] distribution. It has a stigma for being a difficult distribution to use, and is often recommended as a solution to any problem on /g/. After all, if the person asking the question could install [http://funroll-loops.info/ Gentoo], they could probably figure out whatever problem they're having in the first place. If you are considering installing Gentoo, the best resource available to you is the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Handbook].  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Differences between Gentoo and other distros </del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Installation method </ins>==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gentoo is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">different than most other Linux distributions</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">all the way down </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">how </del>it is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">installed</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Most distros include some form of graphical installer. </ins>Gentoo is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">installed by manually partitioning a device, extracting a stage3 tarball, extracting a portage snapshot, compiling a kernel, installing a bootloader</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and then configuring various files that are needed </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">get it up and running. In those regards, </ins>it is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">somewhat similar to installing Debian with debootstrap, Fedora with febootstrap, or an Arch Linux install</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=== Installation method ===</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Because </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">this highly manual approach to installing the system, always keep in mind that installing Gentoo will probably be literally the longest operating system install in your life, ever. '''You have been warned</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' Please, take your time when installing </ins>Gentoo<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, expect the installation to be </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wild ride of problems, achievements and milestones</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and don't try to rush it. If you're a NEET with literally nothing else to do you might be able to rush a Gentoo installation in at least 24 hours; if you're </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">busy person with a day job and friends</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it might take you over an entire week to set everything up. On </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2014-semi-modern quad core CPU with 8 GB of RAM, setting up the minimum system (the stage-3 tarball + Portage </ins>snapshot<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) will take you about an hour</ins>, compiling <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the kernel an hour and </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">half (assuming you're cheating with {{ic|genkernel{{ic| instead of undertaking a manual compilation and fixing an endless series of </ins>kernel <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">panics), finishing your basic installation another hour</ins>, installing <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo)</ins>, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">installing Google Chrome or Firefox ''at least 20 minutes each'' while the entire software compiles from source code. And </ins>that<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'s assuming you're the luckiest person in the world </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">don't run into a single problem</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pitfall or having </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mess </ins>with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another 4 hours. Oh</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another 24 hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk </ins>with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pseudorandom data using four concurrent jobs to exploit your four CPU cores</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Most other distros include some form </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">graphical installer</del>. Gentoo <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is installed by manually partitioning </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">device</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extracting </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stage3 tarball</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extracting </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">portage </del>snapshot, compiling a kernel, installing <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a bootloader</del>, and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">then configuring various files </del>that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are needed to get it up </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">running. In those regards</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it is somewhat similar </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">installing Debian </del>with <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">debootstrap</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fedora </del>with <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">febootstrap, or an Arch Linux install</del>.  </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Because of this highly manual approach to installing the system, always keep in mind that installing Gentoo will probably be literally the longest operating system install in your life, ever. '''You have been warned.''' Please, take your time when installing Gentoo, expect the installation to be a wild ride of problems, achievements and milestones, and don't try to rush it. If you're a NEET with literally nothing else to do you might be able to rush a Gentoo installation in at least 24 hours; if you're a busy person with a day job and friends, it might take you over an entire week to set everything up. On a 2014-semi-modern quad core CPU with 8 GB of RAM, setting up the minimum system (the stage-3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour, compiling the kernel an hour and a half (assuming you're cheating with genkernel instead of undertaking a manual compilation and fixing an endless series of kernel panics), finishing your basic installation another hour, installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours (because the GUI is an optional component in Gentoo), and installing Google Chrome or Firefox ''at least 20 minutes each'' while the entire software compiles from source code. And that's assuming you're the luckiest person in the world and don't run into a single problem, pitfall or having to mess with a poorly documented system component -- if this happens, add at least another 4 hours. Oh, and if you're planning on using a LUKS volume, add another 24 hours while your system fills a 750 GB disk with pseudorandom data using four concurrent jobs to exploit your four CPU cores.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Package manager ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>== Package manager <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>==</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gentoo's package manager, portage, is more similar to what you will find in BSD than in other Linux distributions. Portage tracks installation scripts, called ebuilds, for almost every package you can imagine by default. These ebuilds contain all the information necessary to automatically download a project's source, compile, and install it. If a package is not available for default, you can add other "repositories" as overlays on top of the default Gentoo overlay.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gentoo's package manager, portage, is more similar to what you will find in BSD than in other Linux distributions. Portage tracks installation scripts, called ebuilds, for almost every package you can imagine by default. These ebuilds contain all the information necessary to automatically download a project's source, compile, and install it. If a package is not available for default, you can add other "repositories" as overlays on top of the default Gentoo overlay.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>=== USE flags <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== USE flags ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of the most prominent features of Gentoo is the ability to custom tailor the features of software via USE flags. USE flags are a handy way of automatically specifying options to a piece of software's configuration script during compile time. For example, it is trivial to blacklist something like PulseAudio by simply including -pulseaudio into your global USE flags. USE flags can be specified globally in /etc/portage/make.conf or on a per-package basis through /etc/portage/package.use</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of the most prominent features of Gentoo is the ability to custom tailor the features of software via USE flags. USE flags are a handy way of automatically specifying options to a piece of software's configuration script during compile time. For example, it is trivial to blacklist something like PulseAudio by simply including <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|</ins>-pulseaudio<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}} </ins>into your global USE flags. USE flags can be specified globally in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|</ins>/etc/portage/make.conf<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}} </ins>or on a per-package basis through <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|</ins>/etc/portage/package.use<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}}</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>=== CFLAGS <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== CFLAGS ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Typical of building from source, you are able to specify CFLAGS that add additional optimizations to the compiled software, the most common ones being <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</del>-O2 -march=native<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">" </del>to specify average-level optimization tailored for whatever CPU your computer has.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Typical of building from source, you are able to specify CFLAGS that add additional optimizations to the compiled software, the most common ones being <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|1=</ins>-O2 -march=native<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}} </ins>to specify average-level optimization tailored for whatever CPU your computer has.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>=== Overlays <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Overlays ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Additional repositories of ebuilds are known as overlays. It is common practice to have a local overlay for any custom ebuilds you have created or acquired. Overlays are typically managed with the layman utility.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Additional repositories of ebuilds are known as overlays. It is common practice to have a local overlay for any custom ebuilds you have created or acquired. Overlays are typically managed with the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|</ins>layman<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}} </ins>utility.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>=== License enforcement <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== License enforcement ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Portage allows you to specify which licenses you agree with, to prevent any software with other licenses from being automatically pulled in at any point. For example, you can restrict installed software to only that which is FSF approved by including ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE" into /etc/portage/make.conf</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Portage allows you to specify which licenses you agree with, to prevent any software with other licenses from being automatically pulled in at any point. For example, you can restrict installed software to only that which is FSF <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and OSI-</ins>approved by including <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|1=</ins>ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE"<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}} </ins>into <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{ic|</ins>/etc/portage/make.conf<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}}</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>=== Release schedule <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Release schedule ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gentoo is a rolling-release distribution that allows you to mix channels on a per-package basis. For example, you can maintain a system on the stable channel and selectively install unstable releases, or even compile the latest development releases from Git/SVN/etc. Because of this, Gentoo can be either extremely stable or on the very bleeding edge, depending on how you configure it.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gentoo is a rolling-release distribution that allows you to mix channels on a per-package basis. For example, you can maintain a system on the stable channel and selectively install unstable releases, or even compile the latest development releases from Git/SVN/etc. Because of this, Gentoo can be either extremely stable or on the very bleeding edge, depending on how you configure it.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>== Init system <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Init system ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gentoo uses OpenRC for its init system. It also gives you the option of using systemd if you so choose.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By default, </ins>Gentoo uses OpenRC for its init system. It also gives you the option of using systemd if you so choose.</div></td></tr>
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