{"id":46,"date":"2009-01-01T07:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-05-11T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:43:06","slug":"gentoo-on-a-usb-pendrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/gentoo-on-a-usb-pendrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo on a USB Pendrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what made me leave Fedora within one week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drivers were not upto date<\/li>\n<li>Too generic, resulting is slow performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This made me remove Fedora Sulphur and finally get Gentoo. Well, the reason for using fedora was because they had a USB specialized version. It seemed too slow and along with other factors, it was <em>terminated<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A fan of Gentoo can never leave it without thinking about it. So, I got the Gentoo installation disk and got it working. The true flavor of Linux. Why were distributions like Ubuntu released? Gentoo is the perfect distribution for humankind. If you want to use Ubuntu, think again! Slow performance with no flexibility.That&#8217;s what it is. That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t even think of it though it had a USB special.<\/p>\n<p>Run Gentoo and promote Gentoo Expertises&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gentoo is fast, non-generic, flexible, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Gentoo Linux on a USB Drive is very easy&#8230; But it&#8217;s consequences are even greater! In fact, it is the same with any OS installed on solid-state drives. When any circumstances occur, favoring the unpleasant direct reboot of your machine, the inodes get screwed big time, or sometimes, not. That all depends on luck. I have experienced this the hard way. &#8220;Experience is a soft teacher when you learn from other&#8217;s mistakes, but it is a hard teacher when you learn it from yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[23,555,19,18],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-flash","tag-gen-sab-fed","tag-pendrive","tag-usb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqtyx-K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":289,"url":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/sabayon-four-oh\/","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":0},"title":"Sabayon fOuR oH","author":"Jude Pereira","date":"June 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Based on Gentoo, Sabayon 4.1, tells me: Great performance with less RAM(though you need like 1GB RAM for it to work well enough). 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