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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/main/en/about.xml,v 1.39 2007/09/18 19:04:32 swift Exp $ -->
+
+<mainpage>
+<title>About Gentoo</title>
+<author title="Author">
+  <mail link="drobbins@gentoo.org">Daniel Robbins</mail>
+</author>
+<author title="Editor">
+  <mail link="curtis119@gentoo.org">Curtis Napier</mail>
+</author>
+<author title="Editor">
+  <mail link="peesh@gentoo.org">Jorge Paulo</mail>
+</author>
+<author title="Editor">
+  <mail link="klieber@gentoo.org">Kurt Lieber</mail>
+</author>
+<author title="Editor">
+  <mail link="fox2mike@gmail.com">Shyam Mani</mail>
+</author>
+<author title="Editor">
+  <mail link="swift@gentoo.org">Sven Vermeulen</mail>
+</author>
+
+<abstract>
+About Gentoo, an overview.
+</abstract>
+
+<license/>
+
+<version>1.7</version>
+<date>2007-09-17</date>
+
+<chapter>
+<title>About Gentoo</title>
+<section>
+<body>
+
+<fig link="/images/poster.jpg"/>
+
+</body>
+</section>
+<section>
+<title>What is Gentoo?</title>
+<body>
+
+<p>
+Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be
+automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.
+Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer
+community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal
+secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system,
+embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of
+its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo a <b>meta</b>distribution.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Of course, Gentoo is more than just the software it provides. It is a community
+built around a distribution which is driven by more than 300 developers and
+thousands of users. The distribution project provides the means for the users to
+enjoy Gentoo: documentation, infrastructure (mailinglists, site, forums ...),
+release engineering, software porting, quality assurance, security followup,
+hardening and more.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To advise on and help with Gentoo's global development, a <uri
+link="/proj/en/council/">7-member council</uri> is elected on a yearly basis
+which decides on global issues, policies and advancements in the Gentoo
+project.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</section>
+<section>
+<title>What is Portage?</title>
+<body>
+
+<p>
+<b>Portage</b> is the heart of Gentoo, and performs many key functions.
+For one, Portage is the <e>software distribution</e> system for Gentoo.
+To get the latest software for Gentoo, you type one command: <c>emerge
+--sync</c>. This command tells Portage to update your local "Portage tree" over
+the Internet. Your local Portage tree contains a complete collection of scripts
+that can be used by Portage to create and install the latest Gentoo packages.
+Currently, we have <uri link="http://packages.gentoo.org/categories">more than
+10000 packages</uri> in our Portage tree, with updates and new ones being
+<uri link="http://packages.gentoo.org">added all the time</uri>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Portage is also a <e>package building and installation</e> system.  When you
+want to install a package, you type <c>emerge packagename</c>, at which point
+Portage automatically builds a custom version of the package to your exact
+specifications, optimizing it for your hardware and ensuring that the optional
+features in the package that you want are enabled -- and those you don't
+want aren't.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Portage also keeps your system <e>up-to-date</e>. Typing <c>emerge -uD
+world</c> -- one command -- will ensure that all the packages that <e>you</e>
+want on your system are updated automatically.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</section>
+</chapter>
+</mainpage>