Gentoo/Alt

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Gentoo/Alt is a Gentoo Linux project created to manage porting the Portage framework and other features to other operating systems, such as Mac OS X and the free BSDs. Gentoo/Alt was set up by Pieter Van den Abeele and Daniel Robbins after Pieter Van den Abeele founded Gentoo for Mac OS X.

1 Gentoo for Mac OS X
2 Gentoo/* BSD
3 Gentoo/OpenSolaris
4 Gentoo/Hurd
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Gentoo for Mac OS X

Gentoo for Mac OS X was the first subproject of Gentoo/Alt and focuses on making the Gentoo experience available on Apple's operating system.

[edit] Gentoo/* BSD

Gentoo/* BSD is a subproject which covers ports to BSD-derived operating systems. Currently it consists of three sections: Gentoo/FreeBSD, Gentoo/NetBSD and Gentoo/OpenBSD. The Gentoo/* BSD project is an umbrella to better classify these three subprojects, which often have a lot of similar issues: in practice, most of the decision-making and development is handled in the Gentoo/Alt project or in the subprojects themselves.

[edit] Gentoo/FreeBSD

Main article: Gentoo/FreeBSD

Gentoo/FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system developed by Gentoo Linux developers in order to bring Gentoo Linux design principles such as Portage and the Gentoo Linux baselayout to the FreeBSD operating system.

[edit] Gentoo/NetBSD

Gentoo/NetBSD is a project to provide a GNU userland managed by Portage with a NetBSD kernel. The project was started by Damian Florczyk. Currently only the x86 architecture is targeted and the system as a whole is in an incomplete state.

[edit] Gentoo/OpenBSD

Gentoo/OpenBSD is a Gentoo/* BSD subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system. It was originally started by Grant Goodyear and is currently on development hiatus. An ISO image based on OpenBSD 3.8 is currently maintained by Karol Pasternak and can be downloaded from the project's web site.

[edit] Gentoo/DragonflyBSD

Gentoo/DragonflyBSD is an unofficial (for now) port to the DragonflyBSD kernel. The project is developed by Robert Sebastian Gerus.^[1]

[edit] Gentoo/Interix

Gentoo/Interix (eprefix) is an unofficial port of Gentoo that runs atop an Interix Subsystem for Windows which is also known as [Microsoft Services for Unix] (SFU) or Subsystem for Unix-like Applications (SUA). The project has a page on sourceforge.[1]

[edit] Gentoo/OpenSolaris

An unofficial port to the OpenSolaris kernel, Gentoo/OpenSolaris (aka »Portaris«), was announced several months ago, and work is currently in progress.