For many years Gentoo has been my favorite Linux distro and it still is. I used Redhat, Slackware and Fedora for a few years before that. Just installing Gentoo is such a learning experience. Although installing a software is as simple as doing "emerge X", configuring it is a bit more involved and requires you to dig up config files and editing them. No fancy GUI to help you. Which is the best part about it. I can learn how things work in Linux. Another reason I preferred having Gentoo over other distros is because all the packages are compiled for my machine. Which means all the executables make the best use of all the instructions and features of my processor and what not. But the main reason I use Gentoo is because I can compile the Linux kernel to my taste. Tweaking every bit and compiling only the drivers that I need. I almost never compile anything as a module. Everything is in the bzImage. All these tweaking always made my computer run super fast. While all this is g...
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