Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th May 2002 07:05 UTC
Gentoo is so far, the big Linux surprise this year. With its 1.0 release took the Linux world by storm and converted a huge number of power users and developers from the well-known Linux distros they were using, to the lightweight Gentoo Linux. While its installation process is not for the faint of heart, it pays back the user with a highly optimized system. As a result, Gentoo is dubbed the "fastest Linux distro" to date. Read on for an exclusive interview with Gentoo's project leader, Daniel Robbins where he reveals that Gentoo will be further optimized with the fastest x86 C/C++ compiler (Intel's ICC) in addition to GCC 3.1. Daniel also speaks about the future plans for Portage and the overall system in general.
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Be warned though: I've run into some trouble with updating and things not compling out of portage, although I fully admit this may be because I've been updating sproadically since 1.0-rc6-r15. Things I've had problems with since last night when I rsync'd:
), but it needs to polish some edges before I'd run it on a machine that I couldn't wipe out on a moments notice. Of course I feel that way about Linux in general. 
- sudo (although that's been fixed)
- you have to edit the samba ebuild to remove quotas (this is more a linux problem, even the samba .h file says it)
- something else in libtif broke last night
- you have to hand merge your /etc files after an update.
- where my nvidia glx drivers once work, the glx part broke on a previous upgrade.
I like gentoo (or else why would I be running it?