I am a Gentoo user and I feel very uncomfortable with the expression “A distro for real machos”. Having to spend time configuring and understanding the system has nothing to do with masculinity. I would very much appreciate if you could delete the expression. Thanks!

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Maybe machos was a botched try and describing the self inflected (masochism) pain gentoo can cause… from personal experiance it can drive you insane.

Hi Joan.

I agree, the word “macho” doesnt make any sense… Personally, I find machochism and feminism (if thats what its called) to be rather pointless..

Hi Dave.

I once installed Gentoo. Then realised I had forgotten to add “True-type” support for fonts. When I tried to add it. It began recompiling again ! I agree with you – it CAN drive you insane ! But if you get it to work ! NOthing like it !

Puff, Gentoo lo he probado desde 2004 hasta la fecha y es un sistema cercano a otro proyecto que se llama Linux From Scratch (LFS). Pero la diferencia de Gentoo es que posee Portage un sistema de administracion de paquetes que da la altísima flexibilidad de instalación personalizada de programas en tu sistema. LLevo tiempo en Gentoo y solo puedo decirles que una vez que lo prueban jamás se olvida. Por cierto podemos generar binarios para que en equipos parecidos en hardware, la instalación sea más simple y amena. Si no es así entonces debes optar por ccache o distcc para compilaciones paralelas.

I have proved Gentoo from 2004 until the date and it is a system near to another project that is called Linux From Scratch (LFS). But the difference of Gentoo is that it possesses Portage, a system of administration of bundles that gives the highest flexibility of personalized installation of programs in your system. I take time in Gentoo and only I can say to them that once they never prove it he forgets. Certainly we can generate binary so that in similar teams in hardware, the installation is simpler and lively. If it is not debits this way of that time to choose for ccache or distcc for parallel compilations.

I really like Gentoo because you can choose everything. It forces me to read manuals and so discover lot of new things. Until I use Gentoo, when something goes wrong, it is whether because I’ve done something wrong or the problem is easy to identify.
Compiling is slow. But once done, the system is just what you want.

Is it the disto for “machos”? I don’t think so, I’m not a Linux pro and I use it. But it’s not the disto you choose when you start working with Linux.