Gentoo was 1 of 3 featured distributions in an InformationWeek article titled " How to roll your own Linux distro." The article features Gentoo on 2 of its 5 pages and says, "No discussion of creating your own distribution from scratch would be complete without at least some discussion of Gentoo."

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