Gentoo Reference Platform

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[edit] What is it?

The Gentoo Reference Platform, or GRP for short, is a snapshot of prebuilt packages users (that means you!) can install during the installation of Gentoo to speed up the installation process. The GRP consists of all packages required to have a fully functional Gentoo installation. They are not just the ones you need to have a base installation up to speed in no time, but all lengthier builds (such as KDE, xorg-x11, OpenOffice, Gnome, Mozilla, ...) are available as GRP packages too.

However, these prebuilt packages aren't maintained during the lifetime of the Gentoo distribution. They are snapshots released at every Gentoo release and make it possible to have a functional environment in a short amount of time. You can then upgrade your system in the background while working in your Gentoo environment.

[edit] GRP availability

  • The x86 architecture (x86, i686, pentium3, pentium4, athlon-xp)
    Note: The x86 and i686 GRP packages (for example packages-x86-2005.0.iso) are available on our mirrors, while pentium3, pentium4, athlon-xp are only available via bittorrent.
  • The amd64 architecture (amd64)
  • The sparc architecture (sparc32, sparc64)
  • The ppc architecture (G3, G4, G5)
  • The alpha architecture (alpha, alphaev5, alphaev56, alphaev6)
  • The mips architecture
  • The hppa architecture
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