Pentoo

Reader supplied reviews for Pentoo Average rating 9.0 from 3 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Pentoo? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- daily2025.02024.02019.12009.02006.12006.02005.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2024.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-05-18 Votes: 22 I've been daily driving Pentoo for the last 6 months now and WOW this os is amazing. Out of all distros I've tried this is the most stable and easy to install. This is even more stable than Debian. It's pretty much Gentoo with a bunch of hacking tools. Though I removed all of them which just leaves me with everything I need, Gentoo with Xfce (and the Pentoo kernel). I have no idea why more people aren't using this distro (especially people who want to try Gentoo without going through the install lol). It's a great way for people to try out portage to see if they like it or not. Anyway I could ramble on about this forever but I'm gonna sum it up with a few pros and cons: Pros: Stable Fast Gentoo with xfce4 Openrc (because it's Gentoo, duh) Simple installer that ALWAYS works (no internet connection needed) Great distro for hackers Cons: Not for beginners Grub "Pentoo theme" looks silly and shouldn't be there. It causes grub2 to boot slower, this can be commented out in the config file. Too many hacking tools (many of which require very advance Linux skills to remove) -- conclusion-- If you want to escape from systemd and try Gentoo give Pentoo a shot! It's super stable and fast! Make sure to download the FULL BUILD (Pentoo_Full_amd64_hardened). Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: daily Rating: 9 Date: 2024-05-04 Votes: 1 I stored Pentoo on a USB stick with Sardu and next to Porteus and some recovery distributions. After configuring it, I saved the changes to the module using the "flushchanges" command in the terminal, so that Pentoo always starts configured to my liking. To store documents, files and downloadable programs, I created a special folder in the root of the Sardu USB so that they are not deleted when the system is shut down. I have not installed it on my hard drive because I already have another system installed there, which I like because of the ease of installing applications. I use Pentoo as a live USB and its advantage over most other distributions is its responsiveness and good choice of applications. The xfce desktop is light and responsive, while offering everything for fine configuration. It uses less than 500MB of RAM when idle, so I can use it on less powerful machines. I prefer Mate, but Xfce is a good desktop environment. What I miss in this distribution - a package manager like Debian's Synaptic - a natively installed VPN If it offered that, I would be happy to install it on my hard drive. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: daily Rating: 8 Date: 2024-02-03 Votes: 4 I figured I'd post something here just because no one else had. long story short, if you just want to try real gentoo (without the cumbersome installation ) with xfce4 already install (along with a bunch of different hacking tools) then you should try Pentoo. It's super easy to install and everything is still gentoo, great way to quickly test out the portage system. I had done a bunch of research about gentoo tried to install it on real hardware and it didn't work. Personally I believe that using an OS is much more important than a cumbersome installation which is why I tried Pentoo. Although many descriptions of Pentoo say it's a 'base-distro' it's more like an overlay of gentoo (neofetch will show the gentoo icon and the OS section will read as gentoo). Installation is really easy with Pentoo and you still get that hands on experience with portage. Because everything is still gentoo compiling times are still long and you should STILL READ THE HANDBOOK as there is a bunch of useful information on there. Again this is still gentoo so you should ! This is NOT Debian, Ubuntu or Mint. If you are a causal linux user who is not ready to invest time into learning gentoo then IT'S NOT FOR YOU. Pros easiest way to install gentoo comes with a bunch of cool hacking tools and xfce4 Cons hacking tools it comes with could be bloat if you don't need them might face backlash from the gentoo community for not installing gentoo the traditional way time consuming maintenance Was this review helpful? Yes No