Gentoo

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Not sure if any of you are into Linux at all but for my Computing Systems class the professor is having us install Gentoo.

"Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo a metadistribution.

Of course, Gentoo is more than just the software it provides. It is a community built around a distribution which is driven by more than 300 developers and thousands of users. The distribution project provides the means for the users to enjoy Gentoo: documentation, infrastructure (mailinglists, site, forums ...), release engineering, software porting, quality assurance, security followup, hardening and more."

It's not too hard to install after you've done it a few times but for anyone who thinks they want to jump to the next level of Linux-based operating systems, give it a try. ;-)

I have it installed in a virtual machine and I am currently installing BOINC