Making the Distribution, Part 1

> Right now, we're at the verge of releasing Gentoo Linux 1.0 (it may be available by the time you read this article on developerWorks.) But what does the future hold?

Gentoo 1.0 was released in 2002.

This was a fun read.

It took me down a nostalgic path of installing Gentoo on some old, barely functioning pentium 2 circa 2002. Compiling X and Gnome took literally days!

Having started with Linux using Gentoo - after some attempted excursions into Debian/Ubuntu, then at work CentOS and even few months of having to use Slackware on servers until I finally convinced my boss that his T50-something Thinkpad will do same or better on Gentoo ... (and he won't need to manually chase up dependencies).

And even thought already for years compiling most of the things doesn't take that long. Just for not having to compile bunch of packages where I'm using standard/default config - I've tried Sabayon (back when it was still almost kind of Gentoo), went back to Gentoo ...

And then for almost a decade now - I've been extremely happy with https://www.calculate-linux.org/

Very interesting read. The author’s thoughts as he went through the development process are really interesting - I especially liked the part where he went to BSD and came back. I wonder if all Linux distros come up the way that the author describes for Gentoo.

If you enjoyed reading this, you may also enjoy watching the following video:

https://youtu.be/riWkq5YLUts?si=Q0rW9F1_iKpswGDI