Linked by Robert Tischer on Wed 8th Oct 2003 19:29 UTC
The purpose of this review is to provide some additional exposure to source-based Linux distributions in general, and Sorcerer in particular. We've been using Sorcerer where I work since January of this year and have been completely satisfied with the experience. Hopefully this review will give you a good idea of why we use Sorcerer, and it may move you to try it yourself. I'm no systems adminstrator, so if I can install and work with Sorcerer, most people with a little Linux experience will be able to also. 
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I dunno about Sorceror, but Gentoo supports distcc, to distribute the compile load over your network, as part of Portage. On a large network I wouldn't trade away native distcc support for anything, it's just a wonderful feature.
I think that's one of Gentoo's strenghts, integrating support for things to speed up compile jobs, like ccache and distcc - and the sheer number of developers makes portage an ever changing, ever growing pile of packages - I think we have +4000 packages right now (still some catching up to do with Ports and Debian though).
While Sorceror might be nice, I would give Gentoo a shot simply because it seems to be where the action is at right now in the source based meta distros.
I had Sorceror installed back before Kyle did the license change to the "closed" open source license, that made me switch distros.. So I was wondering since the website doesn't seem to mention it - is Sorceror still under Kyles special license or has it been freed?