Editing Gentoo Linux (section)

===Gentoo Reference Platform===
From 2003 until 2008, the '''Gentoo Reference Platform''' (GRP) was a snapshot of prebuilt packages that users could quickly install during the Gentoo installation process, to give faster access to a fully functional Gentoo installation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/10/10/intro_gentoo.html|title=Gentoo Linux Reloaded|author=Daniel Robbins|author-link=Daniel Robbins (computer programmer)|date=2002-10-10|access-date=2007-01-04|work=[[O'Reilly Media|LinuxDevCenter.com]]|archive-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014143439/http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/10/10/intro_gentoo.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.osnews.com/story/6206|title=Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released|author=Sven Vermeulen|date=2004-03-01|access-date=2018-02-10|work=[[OSNews]]|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807010534/https://www.osnews.com/story/6206/|url-status=live}}</ref> These packages included [[KDE]], [[X Window System]], [[OpenOffice.org|OpenOffice]], [[GNOME]], and [[Mozilla]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/hb-install-about.xml|title=Gentoo Linux Documentation|access-date=2018-02-10|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108142459/https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/hb-install-about.xml|archive-date=2014-01-08|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Once the installation was complete, the packages installed as part of the GRP were intended to be replaced by the user with the same or newer versions built through Portage that would be built using the user's system configuration rather than the generic builds provided by the GRP. As of 2011, the GRP is discontinued, the final reference to it appearing in the 2008.0 handbook.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=1|title=Gentoo Linux Documentation|access-date=2011-04-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223084417/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=1|archive-date=December 23, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>{{Original research inline|date=September 2014}}