Each software package ported to a Gentoo system
gives the user a view of the included open source software packages as they were intended from
the individual projects. For example, a KDE desktop will look like a KDE desktop as it was delivered
from the KDE project itself; there are no ???Gentoo-ized??? menus and icons or graphical administration
tools to alter it.
Gentoo??™s focus on tools for managing and building source code has helped make Gentoo extraordinarily
portable. Besides the common Intel x86 (PC) version of Gentoo, there are packaged versions
of Gentoo ports for HP Alpha, AMD64, HPPA, iA64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, and Sparc 64 computer
architectures. Available, but unsupported architectures include ARM, MIPS, and s390. Optimized
Linux kernels are also available with Gentoo for different specific processors within each architecture.
Still, some of the ports are works in progress, so for the time being you will probably get the
best experience using an x86 platform to run Gentoo.
To explore Gentoo, it??™s more appropriate to start with the tools for getting what you want than it is
to talk about what you end up with. If you build Gentoo tuned to your hardware and include just
the software that you need, your system isn??™t going to look like any other Gentoo system.
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