Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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Well, you can make your _own_ binary distro (emerge ostensibly can handle binary packages); the Gentoo maintainers don't distribute any yet. I'm not sure what they could distribute binary-wise and still be compatible with the good aspects of Gentoo ...
The portage tree is only 5MB as of right now, so you can get the whole thing in one shot pretty easily. I agree that it'd be great if they were to make distfile ISO snapshots on corresponding to the portage snapshots, sorted by order of popularity like the Debian ISOs. Saves the trouble of picking them out yourself.