Calculate Linux 20.6

After that last review, Jonni Bidwell finds something much more suited to his highbrow tastes: a Russian distro based on the venerable Gentoo.

- Jonni Bidwell

IN BRIEF

A Russian, Gentoo-based distribution that doesn’t take three days to install. Enables you to build from source, but also maintains a well-stocked binary repository. Lots of desktop flavours. See also: Sabayon Linux, Funtoo.

Back in Elizabethan times, “calculating” used to be a crime, punishable by being locked up in the Tower of London or some other ghastly fate. Fortunately, times have changed and we generally show deference to those who calculate, especially if it saves us from doing sums.

Calculate Linux, name notwithstanding, is not really about manipulating equations (or getting locked up in the Tower), but rather a well-put-together distribution that anyone with some Linux experience can use. It’s based on Gentoo Linux. Yes, that’s right, the compile-everything-from-source meta-distro that’s the butt of many a jibe and meme on social media (whatever that is).