Xephyr is a useful tool for debugging new configuration files as it creates an instance of an X server within a client window. This will open an x window. To run awesome within it open a new terminal and run the following:. Other languages:. Package information. Open Hub. Note For more information about the format options run date --help. Category : Window manager. Anyway, Gentoo provides many useful instruments to deal with those issues. Even if I am doing a lot of customizing during my few months on Gentoo, I always managed to sort out everything with little to moderate effort.
I am happy to sacrifice some of my time to make sure everything is as I want it to be, instead of relying a lot on the developers. Compared to Arch, and any other distro I have tried, the user have to spend much more time to maintain the system, but the result is extremely satisfying and, if you do everything right, your system will be significantly more powerful than with a binary distro. If you are not willing to spend quite some time on learning, configuring, dealing with updates, then Gentoo is not for you.
Otherwise, absolutely go for it! Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: First install was my Thinkpad x, only 3gb ram, took about a week. Second install, My Thinkcentre m58p, little bit over 3 days school and all Third was on my main, HP z 4c Xeon 12GB ram, took under 2 days, most of that I was asleep so it was continuous.
Gentoo rocks! Same install since Version: stable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 9. Install gentoo and you are in control! If you stay with the stable package set and update regulary, everything will run smoothly without much administration. If you are experienced then it will continue to run smoothy even with custom packages. Perfect choice for those who want a completely libre desktop, with limitless customization.
It will definitely teach the end user various things about the system they are working with, which is a very valuable resource in the linux world. Package and dependency management is very advanced, making systems less prone to breaking unlike other rolling release distros. Not to forget, the wiki, along with Arch linux's wiki, provides nearly every bit of information a linux user would desire and common troubleshooting for dozens of packages.
This is a distro you have to install to really know it's potential, and you will value your system even more now that you know it more from the inside. Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 9. My system runs Gentoo Base System release 2. One must be careful sometimes in what one does, and weekly updates are strongly advised. I would also strongly suggest against it to newcomers and to those who want a full system up and running in a short time. I would strongly suggest it to those with some experience and who can also afford the time and effort needed to really make it fly.
On the way they will learn a lot. From a certain point of view, Arch is a close relative, but without the compiling of the packages. Current user of seven years checking in. I've hopped and dabbled, even to this day just to experiment , but Gentoo takes the cake for the best "daily driver" distro.
If you don't mind building things yourself, and have an open mind to learn things, you're going to love how customizable Gentoo is. Gentoo is the epitome of "if it doesn't work, make it work".
If you find yourself not being able to find software, or having trouble with hardware compatibility, then there's always a solution.
One of my favorite things about Gentoo is the stability. If you end up breaking something, you likely made it your life's work to break it. Despite its stable nature, it's considered a bleeding-edge system! It is in one word - perfection. Those coming from Arch or any flavor of BSD will definitely enjoy this distro.
It makes any install an initial labor of love, and it pays off exponentially. Like building a vintage car from the ground up, then seeing that it does in 1. I've been running Gentoo for 3 months now and so far it has been great.
It took me three days to install, but once I got the installation down, I made a short script which I used to install it on my other computer in a few minutes. It has reasonable package availability. I've not found much that isn't in the repos. Occasionally, you'll run into a package that is missing, but you can usually get those by using an overlay.
One major con of Gentoo is that package management can take a bit of time. You can get failures during compilation of packages and that can be annoying to deal with. As usual in linux, you trade some convenience for additional control over your system. I have noticed that on Gentoo stable, I have had way less issues than on testing. Version: stable Rating: 1 Date: Votes: 0. I have been running this distro for a couple of years now, on all my devices from my tiny thinkpad to my monster eurocom.
Although those devices have a completely different hardware, gentoo allows me to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it. I care about minimalism and keeping things as simple as possible. I do not want my browser to support pulseaudio when I'm just using bare metal ALSA, I do not want every tiny bit of software to come with systemd support when I'm running a different init manager.
I couldn't care less about llvm support for most of my software, even less geolocation, JIT or vala. And most importantly, I want all of my binaries to be compiled specifically for my native architecture. I want my kernel to only have support for the hardware I actually use. No other distro will give me this amount of freedom. In fact, when I see how much space and performance I can gain from fine tuning compile option for every package, I wonder how people on other distros can cope with their massive, all-supporting binary packages and their kernel built with basically all possible hardware.
And speaking of manual, the online documentation is really great, second to maybe only the archwiki, although it probably even has a couple of articles that have no equivalent on archwiki. Version: stable Rating: 1 Date: Votes: 1.
I did not have any luck trying to install Gentoo. I wonder why we have to download the stage 3 tar ball when we already have it on a flash drive which we are working from. I could not find the stage 3 tar ball in the download mirrors, also where would it download to? I think the Gentoo hand book is out of date. Some day I will try to install Gentoo again if I can find accurate information, but for now Mxlinux is the way to go for me.
Gentoo Linux does not come with an installer. I had to make my own initialisation sequence of installation. There is a lot of compilation to start with which makes it a bit of tedious process. It is a flexible distro or meta-distro to be accurate , if one wants a lot of customisation, but it is a lot of work to get it up and running. I would not recommend it to a beginner, or someone who would not read the manuals and would not mind some frustration during the installation process. Gentoo is not my favourite installation, however, it is the second best.
Great distribution for who needs to have package at the top of version. Pros: 1. Continuous upgrade, there is not exactly major version transition. Even glibc can be upgraded. Based on source code package. Everything is compiled to install with several options under administrator control. Fine control of package installation.
Support traditional glibc but also musl and uclibc. Cons: 1. Requires a lot of experience to use in production. Some installation requires administrator intervention to decide about install and there is no default option.
The analysis is critically required when requested by the system install packages called "portage". I took three years to feel confident but the result was awesome. Sounds like a nightmare to install and configure. I will not try this one. Excellent handbook with tons of information. Easy to install, but a bit tedious. Great new kernels support. Easy to install scientific and non-scientific software. Excellent functional rolling distro.
Recently installed it 4 years ago and I do not plan to go back to any other distro. Version: stable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 3. On and off user. Currently running a Ryzen build with the x 64 GB of ram and this thing just destroys everything I throw at it. Compile times are virtually non-existent where even monstrous packages like building KDE Plasma 5 was a breeze with this setup.
Installed in Still in use. Compile time is not an issue anymore with x. Customizability is still good. Installed only once - AMD64 retired Today compiling time on modern processors is no issue anymore. Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 4. I make the updates regularly and has share three or four problem due to options of the kernel I never had a problem. I back up the system and boot partitions with clonezilla before updating the kernel and voila.
Wonderful distribution if: 1. You want customization. You are not new to Linux 3. You don't mind reading the documentation. You want a rolling distribution I have been using Gentoo since and have never regretted the decision. Yes, on occasion I need to ask for help in the forum but between the forum, docs and wiki problems are usually easy to solve. Version: stable Rating: 7 Date: Votes: A year and a few months working with gentoo. Difficulties for me to maintain: - installing a browser on a modern machine with make -j9, takes a long time, a long time, a long time After a while, I started reinstalling gentoo when I needed to update, so there was no problem.
To install or update a medium or large application, I needed to wait until night or time to sleep, and let it run overnight. And looking for a distant and empty room so that the high build process does not disturb other people. For a single person to manage gentoo, it's a lot of work. It can be fun for a team of professionals. Absolutely fantastic Distribution. With having the strongest community behind the development, to one of the most knowledgeable and friendly IRC Support channel, best wiki and the highest level of customizability cause of its source based nature and USE Flags that can be defined globally.
I like the fact that I can configure the most cleanest system tuned to my exact hardware and CPU. OpenRC in Gentoo is at its best with openrc-init replacing the need to have sysvinit around. Wonderful learning experience. Really happy about how much in-depth control I gained to my little Thinkpad X In particular, I like a lot the fact that I can only update a minimum collection of necessary packages e.
Great customization and optimization options USE flags and package manager Portage , but too much time consuming on tweaking, optimization and installation source compiling Very good docs, even the inexperienced users will able to install and configure the system and basics with some effort I prefer Arch Linux better - it's as fast and stable as Gentoo, great docs and community, loads of packages on AUR and in official repos, much faster to install and maintain pacman is excellent and more simple to use than Portage , it's not source based like Gentoo though, but you also have ABS system if you want to compile your own packages Was this review helpful?
Just try it! The learning curve is almost the hardest but in the end is the most stable, optimized and personalized distro ever! In the end is so easy to add your favorite software that you will start to win so many time. Version: stable Rating: 9 Date: Votes: 7. I am a Gentoo user since I love Gentoo, I learnt Linux by installing and maintaining it! Version: stable Rating: 5 Date: Votes: Very fast and I really like the idea behind it, but, in the end, I have to conclude that this distro is only for high level Linux experts or those who have lots of time to become experts.
It took me over a week to get it working on my laptop. But it seems inevitable that eventually something will break and lots more time lost trying to fix it. I was recently trying to do an update which broke musescore, a necessary program for me.
One of its dependencies would not compile. The only help I got online was that I didn't have enough memory. If 8GB free is not enough, something must be wrong. It that particular case, I was able to change a USE flag for musescore so that dependency wasn't needed but now I've lost some functionality.
Having been through the process, I tried to get it running on my new desktop. Again, it has been almost a week and I still don't have a working system. Always something or other won't compile. I give up. Anyway, it's great if you have lots of time or are a high level Linux expert. Version: stable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 1.
The only correct choice for those that are picky about what their OS is every step of the way, the caveat to that level of control is the ability to mess up very badly, which newbies will do. If you know what you're doing, there is no better distro, as it's entirely what you make of it. The only distro I can deal with Gentoo sucks less! I can control package versions to suit my needs portage, the package manager, handles all dependency stuff.
You need to be very comfortable with linux and editing text files, or willing to learn, but the advantages are huge ranging from being able to install it on anything from a server to a laptop for daily use to your new toaster! Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 1. In this system I feel the highest comfort. If the head is in place, then you will succeed. There is everything necessary for this!
Version: stable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 5. Not for the beginner but if you're comfortable working in the shell this distro is rock solid stable and the most customizable you're going to find. Portage is the most powerful package manager around. Hats off to the people at Gentoo they have got it just right in my opinion Was this review helpful?
Version: stable Rating: 3 Date: Votes: Even if you know Gentoo Another disaster is the outdated documentation. Yes, there are many good information but not maintained to current developments.
Gentoo is a source based rolling release linux distro with excellent on-line documentation and a helpful community. Gentoo offers a wide range of init systems, desktop environments, file systems ,and networking software. Its package manager portage lets you opt-in or opt-out of features of individual packages, and it is possible to tailor binaries for specific CPUs for best performance.
With Gentoo you can have an optimized linux system tailored to how you want it. It may take some time to learn Gentoo well, and to create the system, but it is well worth it.
Version: stable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 8. If you like or need to tinker, you gotta love it. You can make your decisions and easily get rid of code that you don't want to compile and run. Needless to say, you can also choose your init thanks guys!
Once the gentoo is configured to your needs, just save your config files and all subsequent installations become a breeze. If you know what your are doing, gentoo is a dream come true. If you don't, it's valuable learning experience. A lot of work to build and you end up becoming a servant of the system, having to spend too much time getting things done, which in other old and tested distributions is done more quickly.
It is worth learning to install and test. Version: stable Rating: 5 Date: Votes: 8. It works stable and can find all programs to install.
You can compile, configure and have the same end result in many other mother distributions. Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: Votes: 6.
Around I started moving everything from Gentoo to Ubuntu, mostly because Gentoo refused to actually sign packages, and tools like Evilgrade for injection malicious updates were becoming more common. I loved bootstrapping my own system and loved the control and speed that Gentoo offered, but eventually as Ubuntu matured, I switched directly to it and that was it.
Last time I tried to install Gentoo for fun or something there was zero documentation for newer hardware and I gave up and installed Ubuntu again.
I ran Gentoo back then too and rather liked the control it gave me, but compiling updates with the hardware available at the time was rather a pain. I switched to Ubuntu right about them, as it had matured enough.
Internally Gentoo went through some disruptive organizational changes, the wiki was broke for awhile wiki and forums were very rich and constantly updated by the community and the community just drifted apart.
Also at that time, Gentoo was struggling a lot with stability. Many highly experimental packages got pulled into stable, and on the other hand, many very old stable packages kept being hard masked. It was a mess. As others have pointed out, the rise of Ubuntu and related distros helped. Another issue was the relative rise in capability for home computers. Gentoo is great when a little bit of performance means a lot, or when your hardware or needs requires specific and strange configuration to work properly.
As computers got faster, Linux got more efficient, and more hardware was supported, it made less sense to spend hours re-compiling something to get a slight performance boost. For the end user, stuff like choosing your own window manager could be accomplished easily with Arch. But for the developer, a modular, easily programmable package manager and tools like crossdev is a godsend that very few mainstream distros offer.
There really needs to be 2 orders of magnitude fewer use flags to cover major features, not individual ones. The new Dell laptop I just got worked out of the box. The thing I still love about Gentoo is that I control and customize every aspect of my box—I only have the programs and daemons I need, I build my own kernel, I choose my own init system no systemd here.
More at Reddit. Having a copy of this disc on hand is a great way to showcase a wide variety of open source applications to users who may not be familiar with the wide variety of open source software that is out there.
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