Installing Gentoo ...

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Gentoo Quick Install notes Converting /etc/portage.{unmask,keywords} files to folders:

for I in /etc/portage/package.{unmask,keywords} ; do mv $I $I. ; mkdir $I; mv $I. $I/$(basename $I).old; done

Average

On Laptops
As a Multimedia Station

Clustering

As a Basic Beowulf Cluster
As a Beowulf Head node
As a Dedicated Computing Machine
As a Diskless Client (SSI)

Other

As an Asterisk server
As a NAS Network Accessible Storage
As a Bacula backup server

Some speed up trics

Mount portage workdir in RAM (if you have lots of it ;)

mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/tmp/portage

Add python accelerator for emerge speedyness:

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