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'''Gentoo Linux''' is a high performance, sourcessource-based [[Linux distribution]]. It has an advanced *[[BSD]]-style package management system called [[Portage (software)|Portage]] which is written in [[Python]]. Gentoo is hailed as a [[meta-distribution]] because of its near infinite configurability. This includes the optional use of "USE FLAGSflags," which describe the hardware and software features the user would like to include while building packages. The originator and current head of the Gentoo project is [[Daniel Robbins]].

One of the goals for Gentoo [[Linux]] 1.4 is the addition of the '''GRP'''--the ''Gentoo Reference Platform''--which will allowallows users to install precompiled packages built to certain baselines specifications. This may be an attempt to appease naysayers; some believe that Gentoo users spend too much time compiling and recompiling common packages.

It is also possible to create [[tarball]]s of packages for distribution to other machines; this is particularly useful in the case of a [[homogenous]] computercomputing settingenvironment, where one machine can build new or updated packages and the resulting precompiled tarballs can be installed on the rest of the machines without needing any further modification or rebuilding.

In June 2003, [[Zachary Welch]], a long-standing developer and sponsor of Gentoo, announced that he was unhappy with the direction of Gentoo and was creating a new distribution. This is to be maintained by a new non-profit organisation, the Zynot Foundation.

Ports of Gentoo currently exist for the [[x86]], [[PowerPC, Sparc]], and HPPA[[SPARC]] platforms; atports theto time[[AMD64]] and of[[IA64]] thisare editunderway.