The Gentoo Linux distribution is 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and began developing a new distribution, into which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year , in which experiments were carried out on building a distribution kit assembled from source code with optimizations for specific equipment. A fundamental feature of Gentoo was the division into ports built from source (portage) and the minimum base system needed to build the main applications of the distribution. The first stable release of Gentoo took place three years later, on March 31, 2002.
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