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gentoo
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1VERB + GENTOO
consider, install, installing
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A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu.
The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country.
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133, The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
2
The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.
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The Telugu language.
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gentoo penguin
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The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal m
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1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133, The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gento
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Install Gentoo.
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I'm not good enough at baby Linux to consider installing Gentoo.
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