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		leif on March 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arch Linux turns 10 What do you think gentoo was? When I used it (2005-7ish), I think it was a toy for brat haxxors. At the time, I was a brat haxxor, so it worked well.

beza1e1 on March 15, 2012 [–]

During a certain period the Gentoo wiki was one of the best resources for configuration and debugging, even if you used another distro. The downfall might be coincide with the Big Wiki Loss [0].

[0] http://eddiedu.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/gentoo-wiki-gentoo-p...

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