#GENTOO DISTRO SOFTWARE#
#GENTOO DISTRO CODE#
#GENTOO DISTRO FREE#

The Gentoo Council members are elected for a period of one year, each year by the active Gentoo developers. There is also a seven-member Gentoo Council that oversees the technical issues and policies of Gentoo. The current Board of Trustees is composed of five members who were announced (following an election) on March 2, 2008. In 2004, Robbins set up the non-profit Gentoo Foundation, transferred all copyrights and trademarks to it, and stepped down as Chief Architect of the project. Gentoo Linux 1.0 was released March 31, 2002. ДЄfter problems with a bug on his own system, Robbins halted Gentoo Linux development and switched to FreeBSD for several months, later saying 'I decided to add several FreeBSD features to make our autobuild system (now called Portage) a true next-generation ports system.' The modifications to EGCS eventually became part of the official GCC (version 2.95), and other Linux distributions experienced similar speed increases. At this point, Enoch changed name to Gentoo Linux (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin ). Daniel Robbins and the other contributors experimented with a fork of GCC known as EGCS developed by Cygnus Solutions. Д¬ompilation issues revealed problems with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), used to build from source code. At least one version of Enoch was distributed: version 0.75, in December 1999. The goal was to create a distribution without precompiled binaries that was tuned to the hardware and only included required programs. Gentoo Linux was initially created by Daniel Robbins as the Enoch Linux distribution. Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution, 'because of its near-unlimited adaptability', in that the majority of users have configurations and sets of installed programs which are unique to themselves. Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user's machine. The development project and its products are named after the fastest-swimming penguin, the Gentoo, to reflect the potential speed improvements of machine-specific optimization.

#GENTOO DISTRO CODE#

Where source code is available, Portage normally supplies no precompiled binaries, continuing in the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some large packages (such as Mozilla Firefox and LibreOffice) are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures where compiling would otherwise be very time consuming.

#GENTOO DISTRO SOFTWARE#

Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration.

#GENTOO DISTRO FREE#

It is distributed as free and open source software. Gentoo Linux ( / Л€ dК’ Й› n t uЛђ / JEN-too) is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. The desktop as provided by Gentoo Linux LiveDVD, release 12.0

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