install gentoo
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install gentoo
>>55240625
Grub died so I can't get into it right now, but here's a screenfetch from a few days ago.
>>55240625
I'm getting a new workstation I'm gonna use as a server in a few days. Thinking of installing gentoo because I've always wanted to try it and stepping up a server won't be fun if it's too easy.
In doing some research I saw that gentoo has a hardened install. Anyone use it?
>>55240625
We are in 2016, windows 10 is more relevant than this.
>>55240926
Never used the hardened install but it looks easy to set up.
Gentoo is great for a server, once you get past the install, just have it upgrade overnight and applications that you use most use bleeding edge.
>>55240625
Hi /g/ents
Should clean up my install though. 1300 packages...
>>55240929
Garbage is relevant if you choose to live in a dump
>>55240625
>gentoo linux
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>>55241323
But then it's actually GNU + Linux + Gentoo...
>>55241430
are you a tard
>>55241458
no u
>>55241430
It's Gentoo GNU/Linux. Gentoo is a specific distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.
>>55240625
Already have
I don't know much about gentoo, but why is it superior to the other distros?
>>55240625
But I barely have figured out how to use Ubuntu Linux
>>55240625
I did. It's boring as hell and it felt like building a ship in a bottle with a bad case of Parkinson's every time it pulled something weird on me.