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I'll admit the endless compiling was often torturous, but I have the Gentoo docs to thank for most of what I know about the innards of Linux and operating systems. Bet I'm not alone in judging the time spent worth it :)



My time in Gentoo was absolutely worth it for the same reasons. There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I still recommend it to people who are serious about diving into Linux.


I'd say I learned more by playing around with Slackware, but Gentoo provides all those nice tools to mantain a consistent system.




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