Old Linux Distro : Gentoo Linux

DEFINITIONS

-- Old Linux Distro : Gentoo Linux --Gentoo is a free operating system based on Linux or FreeBSD that can be instantly optimized or customized for each application required. Freedom extreme settings, performance, and community of users and developers were very nice are the symbol of the Gentoo experience.

Thanks to technology Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal server, a development, professional desktop, the system for games, embedded solution or whatever - whatever you want. Since the level of adjustment is virtually unlimited, we call Gentoo Linux meta-distribution.

Portage is the heart of Gentoo, which carries out many key functions. For example, Portage is the software distribution system for Gentoo. To get the latest software for Gentoo, you only need to type one command: emerge -sync. This tells Portage to update the "Portage tree" over the Internet to your local. Local Portage tree contains a complete collection of scripts used by Portage to create and install the latest Gentoo packages. For now, we have more than 10000 packages in our Portage tree, with updates and additions made at any time.

Portage is also a system builder and installer packages. When you want to install a package, you simply type emerge package name, and Portage will build a special version of the package that you want to your own specifications, optimizing it for your hardware and ensuring that all features options that you want from the package included - and you do not want to be excluded.

HISTORY and DEVELOPMENTS

Gentoo Linux was originally created by Daniel Robbins named Enoch Linux. The purpose of development is to create a Linux distribution without binary compiled in a program from the beginning (default) with a view to maximizing the hardware as well as including only the programs required by the user. Only one version of Enoch ever released the version 0.75 in December 1999.

And because of the length of compiling the source code to the GNU Compiler Collection, which is used as a compiler. Daniel Robbins and other developers to do forking GCC experiment that became known as the egcs compiler developed by Cygnus Solutions. At that moment, Enoch renamed Gentoo Linux (Gentoo penguin is one of a kind). Egcs later became part of the official version of GCC (version 2.95), and with this egcs Other Linux distribution to get the speed of the program is just as good.

Having found a flaw in the program of his Gentoo system, Robbins disable further development several months and switched to FreeBSD to modify features auto build Gentoo system by adding several features of FreeBSD.

Gentoo Linux 1.0 was released on March 31, 2002. In 2004, Robbins founded the non-profit Gentoo Foundation, then moved all his copyrights to Gentoo distribution of this organization, and announced himself as the leader of the Gentoo Linux project.

Gentoo Linux Features

• Package System: Linux Kernel 6.2.37 (with Gentoo patches), Accessibility Support with SpeakUp 3.1.6, bash 4.1, glibc 2.12.2, gcc 4.5.2, binutils 2:21, 2.7.1 and 3.1.3 python, perl 5:12 .3, and others.
• Desktop Environment and Windows Managers: KDE SC 4.6, GNOME 2.32, Xfce 4.8, Enlightenment 1.0.7, 3.4.11.2 Openbox, Fluxbox 1.3.1, XBMC 10.0, and others.
• Applications Office, Graphics, and Productivity, including: OpenOffice 3.2.1, 21.5.29 XEmacs gVim 7.3.102, Abiword 2.8.6, GnuCash 2.2.9, Scribus 1.9.3, GIMP 2.6.11, 0.48.1 Inkscape, Blender 2.49b, xsane 0997, and others.
• Applications Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, Arora 0.11.0, Opera 11.0, Epiphany 2.30.6, Seamonkey 2.0.11, and more.
• Tool For Communication: Pidgin 2.7.10, Quassel 0.7.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7, Claws Mail 3.7.8, 0.10.0 Qtwitter, irssi 0.8.15, and others.
• Application Development: KDevelop 4.2, 1.5.5 KDESvn, qt-creator 2.1.0, 2.0.2 Bluefish, and others.
• Multimedia Application: Amarok 2.4, MPlayer 1.0_rc4, dvdauthor 0.6.14, LAME 3.98.4, ffmpeg 0.6, GNOME-MPlayer 1.0.0, 0.6.9 SMPlayer, and others.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Gentoo

Here are some advantages of the Gentoo Distro:

• Gentoo Linux Distro demanding and forcing users to better learn and know more about how the Linux operating system in more depth. Due to the way the lawyer-install an OS and Softwares are not as easy as Ubuntu, Fedora (Red Hat), Linux Mint, Backtrack, Debian or other Linux distros that prefer binary packages. Hence, the necessity and the demands will make the user become better to learn to know and understand how the Linux OS in more depth (red, personal experience).
• Any software's that are installed on Gentoo Linux can be compiled and installed from source code or source codes. However, for the convenience of the users, most of the software is also provided in binary form. But for users who want to install software from the software source code or source code, then the user will have a lot more choice and selection in accordance with the user's own wishes. Due Gentoo uses portage management system and management system is designed on a modular basis. Where each package software's it easy to set and optimized by each individual user. It is also more flexible and portable (can be ported to other distributions).
• Gentoo Linux is a distro that has a system's updating very quickly. What if one of the software that is usually provided by Gentoo has released the newest version, then more or less within 1 to 2 days, Gentoo is already providing software on a mirror repository. So that the user can update the software at that time.
• Did not like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Debian and others are barely a few months once released the newest version. If using Gentoo you do not need to frequently install Linux OS are you using to the latest version or not anyway have to bother to upgrade it to the latest version. Example: 11:10 upgrade version of Ubuntu (Oneiric Ocelot) version to 12:10 (Quantal Quetzal). Simply by running emerge (portage management software, together with the apt in ubuntu) as usual.

Disadvantages of Gentoo Linux:

• In the graphical desktop, Gentoo Linux still tends to follow the Ubuntu derivatives. 
• breakdown, less appropriate for the mission-critical server 

that is all of Old Linux distributions: Gentoo Linux. Hope it helps readers to know what the old Linux distro. Helpfully, if yes please shared. Thanks You

Author: Linux Info

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