I must say that I've had love-hate relationships with both Red Hat and Debian (RH was too automagic, yet Linux - Debian was too hard to figure, yet Linux). The excellent community and the dead-easy system management, not to mention the extreme cutting-edgeness, however finally brought me to Gentoo. And I can't say I am unhappy with it. I just installed the unstable GCC 3.3 compiler, and it hasn't brought me many problems... yet.
Although it can take hours to install an application, I am still in love with Portage (yeah, I know it's a BSD ripoff). And the ultratweakability is really nice, which is why Gentoo is so great for geeks and developers...
Gentoo's in the lead! :-)
I must say that I've had love-hate relationships with both Red Hat and Debian (RH was too automagic, yet Linux - Debian was too hard to figure, yet Linux). The excellent community and the dead-easy system management, not to mention the extreme cutting-edgeness, however finally brought me to Gentoo. And I can't say I am unhappy with it. I just installed the unstable GCC 3.3 compiler, and it hasn't brought me many problems... yet.
Although it can take hours to install an application, I am still in love with Portage (yeah, I know it's a BSD ripoff). And the ultratweakability is really nice, which is why Gentoo is so great for geeks and developers...
- Simon