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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I really enjoy Gentoo. It's a nice distro and it has replaced Debian on my laptop. The custom Gentoo kernel simply kicks ass :-D. It has everything you need wrapped up into it minus The International Kernel Patch (for obvious reasons I suppose) but thats not to hard to roll into it ( www.kerneli.org ). The Preemptive and Low Latency kernel patches are already wrapped into the kernel and really improve GUI response times (something I've always found lacking under Linux). Enough so that KDE response time is not effected by a full blown emerge in the background (I keep a VT reserved for that).
Portage is very nice as well and I'm glad someone has FINALLY brought an equivelent of the BSD port system over to Linux (some people say its even more stable then the BSD equivelents). Nothing quite like optimizing KDE for your system (which is probably another reason why its response time is so nice).
I only have one complaint and that is that it took so long to compile everything for my system (1 day and 1 night on a 1 GHZ system with a T1 from stage 1).
Other then that I really love it and suggest that people AT LEAST look at the Gentoo custom kernel if nothing else :-) (yeah I'm putting the kernel on my other Linux systems as well).
Tip for new Gentoo users:
Learn how to use the USE flag http://www.gentoo.org/doc/use-howto.html BEFORE you start compiling your new system :-)