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Gentoo is a source-based Linux distribution designed to be automatically optimized and customized according to the user's need.

Gentoo is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. It is distributed as free and open source software, but includes some proprietary software packages.

Philosophy

Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration.

Releases

Gentoo is based on a rolling release principle: once installed, a system can be upgraded package by package. Although Gentoo releases originally existed in the form of installation media, since 2008, installation media are regenerated every week.

Documentation

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What is the basic difference between Arch and Gentoo Linux?

What is the difference between Arch Linux and Gentoo Linux? Their ideologies seem quite similar to me.
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Ctrl + left/right arrow keys issue

After the last system update the ctrl + left/right arrow command on zsh terminal doesn't do anything. Also ctrl+ u has something wrong because usually that command erase from the cursor to the beginning of the line, while now erase entire…
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Gentoo Linux GPG encrypts properly a file passed through parameter but throws "Inappropriate ioctl for device" when reading from standard input

I am running Gentoo Hardened with kernel 4.1.7-hardened-r1 and I am trying to encrypt a file using GPG from a shell session opened from SSH and with the DISPLAY variable disabled in order to use pinentry-curses for password prompt. Using gpg -o…
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Using ABI_X86 in Gentoo

It's been months since I've updated my Gentoo system. And, as you can imagine, this means there's a lot of packages (and USE changes) I need to go over. My system is "amd64" (multilib), but I have a lot of manually keyworded packages from "~amd64".…
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Difference between Gentoo and Funtoo

I'm struggling to understand how Funtoo is different from Gentoo, The Funtoo website claims to be an improved version of Gentoo saying this: Funtoo Linux features native UTF-8 support enabled by default, a git-based, distributed Portage Tree …
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Why people recommend the -j3 option for make when having a dual-core CPU?

In Gentoo Linux it is possible to set the MAKEOPTS variable in /etc/portage/make.conf to tell make how many jobs it should run in parallel when building packages. Since I have a dual-core CPU, I naively chose to use the -j2 option: one job per core,…
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Correctly setting environment

I'm using zsh and gdm to run gnome. Some time ago I discovered that variables are not set correctly. For example LANG/LC_ALL are incorrect ("" instead of en_GB.UTF-8). I split the .zshrc into .zshrc and .profile. In the latter I set the environment…
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How to find which package provides a file?

For example, I can't install package qcad because of error: "can't find qdict.h". How can I find the package which provides the file qdict.h so I can install the package qcad?
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mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run

I am trying to connect from my Gentoo to RHEL server. Both have mosh installed, however I get this error: petanb@localhost ~/Documents $ mosh root@server mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run. Unfortunately, the local environment ([no…
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Portage on Gentoo how to view available software versions?

I would like to install program foo using emerge on a Gentoo system; so I simply use emerge foo to install and portage selects the most current version of that software that's in its repository. If I know the version number and the naming…
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How to find in which overlay is desired package?

How do I identify which overlays (if any) contain a particular package?
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Why can't I use the REJECT policy on my iptables OUTPUT chain?

I currently have my OUTPUT chain set to DROP. I'd like to change it to REJECT, so that I have a clue that it's my firewall stopping me from getting somewhere rather than a problem with whatever service I'm attempting to access (immediate reject…
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zsh wants to correct vim to .vim

I'm using zsh on Gentoo x64, and when I type sudo vim /path/to/file from my home folder, zsh asks: zsh: correct 'vim' to '.vim' [nyae]? I want to run vim not my .vim folder. How do I fix this? My guess is that setopt autocd is causing this. Odd…
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Gentoo: No package `glib-2.0` found

I have a strange problem when trying to install dev-lib/gobject-introspection: >>> Emerging (1 of 9) dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.42.0 ...... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 > 2.36.0) were not met: No package `glib-2.0`…
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Safely uninstall a package in Gentoo

I wanted to uninstall a specific package in Gentoo and browsed through the emerge man page. I found the --unmerge option: WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all matching packages. This does no checking of dependencies,…
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