Review: Gentoo 2004.2 Linux

If you're heretofore unfamiliar with Gentoo Linux, it's a source-based GNU/Linux distribution; that
means that you compile some or all of the operating system and the accompanying programs from source code. There are other source-based distributions, such as Source Mage, ROCK Linux, Onebase Linux, Lunar Linux, and Sorcerer, but what makes Gentoo unique among not only GNU/Linux distributions but most operating systems in general is its Portage program management system. Portage is like Debian's APT tools, except it's much easier to configure and use, and it generally handles the downloading and compiling of source code packages rather than binary packages.