Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Gentoo Linux
The 20 closest Linux distribution alternatives to Gentoo Linux, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Gentoo Linux? The closest matches are Linux kernel, GNOME and Arch Linux. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux gentoo.org
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Wikidata: Linux distribution
Summary by Claude
Official website of Gentoo Linux, a free source-based Linux distribution built around the Portage package manager, offering downloads, installation documentation, a wiki, package database, security advisories and community resources.
- Who it’s for
- Experienced Linux users and developers
- Business model
- Donations and sponsorships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Gentoo Linux’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Gentoo Linux
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Gentoo Linux, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close cos 0.917 - 02
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Very close cos 0.912 - 04
The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Very close cos 0.897 - 05
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close cos 0.896 - 06
Fedora Linux | The Fedora Project
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
Close cos 0.892 - 07
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Close cos 0.891 - 08
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Close cos 0.886 - 09
Git
distributed version control system
Close cos 0.886 - 10
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.880 - 11
LVFS: Home
firmware update management software for Linux
Close cos 0.877 - 12
software and tech-news website based in Romania
Close cos 0.878 - 13
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.877 - 14
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Close cos 0.878 - 15
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.877 - 16
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.877 - 17
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Google Search Console
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai
- Akamai Bot Manager
- Akamai Edge DNS
Close cos 0.875 - 18
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Close cos 0.874 - 19
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.873 - 20
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close cos 0.873
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gentoo.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Gentoo Linux uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Gentoo Linux is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://assets.gentoo.org/tyrian/v1/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://assets.gentoo.org/tyrian/v1/bootstrap.min.js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080037-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=TghnZBoJySbGjLcdxG0LaQW4CEySKKUn-joa4u72Z2Q
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Gentoo Linux adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on gentoo.org 5/20
- nginx 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on gentoo.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on gentoo.org 4/20
- Matomo · not on gentoo.org 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gentoo.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on gentoo.org 3/20
- Bootstrap 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on gentoo.org 2/20
- Fastly 2/20
- jQuery 2/20
- GlobalSign · not on gentoo.org 2/20
- Google Workspace · not on gentoo.org 2/20