Welcome to A Beginners Guide to Gentoo

First of all, please remember that this is not a definitive guide to Gentoo. Gentoo is an extremely powerful and robust linux distribution. It is extremely fun and can be as easy and as hard as you want it to be. You can choose the stable side and add and remove parts of it unlike any linux out there on the market. There are numerous servers out there in the market who use it because it has the ability to be tweaked more than any linux distro out there.

Many people came to Gentoo looking for something different and never left because of it's great community and the certain je n'cest quoi that it has. If you have come from Ubuntu or Fedora and you want it running the same then you can have it. Me personally, I like to live on the edge, the bleeding edge; when a change is made I get it straight away - this means that from time to time things break but if it isn't my fault (and sometimes even if it is) I submit a bug report.

And that is Gentoo - choice. You can choose to be stable or testing or you can choose to go even further with the packages you want and use the overlays. There will always be someone on the forums who is trying to get their computer booting in 5 seconds or get GCC compiling in less than 10 mins (I have, 9mins 35secs lol)

At the end of the day, Gentoo is about 2 things: choice and fun. If you dont like either then I suggest you go back to Windows ;)

If you feel that something needs to be added to this website then tell me. If you are clever enough then you would have already figured out who I am. :D

Parts of this website assume different things. Some assume that you have installed Gentoo and therefore have a basic knowlege of what USE flags are but others assume you have no knowlege at all.