Alternate system configurations

Introduction

Gentoo can be installed and configured to suit the users needs. While the handbook provides an officially supported installation and configuration method a number of users find alternate installation and configuration methods useful. For alternate methods of installation see ... link to alternate install.

Discussions regarding the following information can be found on the user forums, with this page aimed at providing a brief overview with links to relevant details. The pros and cons of a particular approach can be found in the links, discussions on the user forums, and through web searches. What works best will vary from person to person, and use case to use case.

System init

There are a number of systems which can be used to initialize a system a comparison of these is available comparison of init systems

Device managers

There are a number of alternatives available for device managers, these include udev, eudev, mdev ... Information on each of these can be found on wiki pages for example

udev

eudev

mdev

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