Why Use Gentoo?

• Fairly recent poll on gentoo-user. (August '03)

• #1 – Portage.

• #2 – Customized / Control.

• #3 – Fast / Optimized.

  • The speed of Gentoo is somewhat debatable. A recent benchmark showed that Mandrake was faster.
  • This is due to optimization settings. (ie. Unrolling loops can cause more cache misses, reducing performance)

• #4 – Up to Date / Bleeding Edge.