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My dalliance with Gentoo Linux

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All about Linux; By Ravi
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A user's perspective on Gentoo Linux

I am a self confessed Linux addict. Seriously, I just love to try out new Linux distributions and see how they fare against one another. Now this addiction of mine has got its own advantages. For example, it gives me a fair idea about the pros and cons of each distribution, its weaknesses and strengths. And this experience form a basis on which I decide which should be my dominant distribution at any given time....So the weekend prior to last when I got a few days off, it was Gentoo's chance for getting installed on this partition I talked about earlier.

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It was the first distro I tried that would work smoothly with and take advantage of my AMD 64. A stage-3 install is really not that difficult or lengthy; I used about a 2.5. And the documentation on how to do all that is really clear, though it IS lengthy. Has to be.

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