i've got nothing but good things to say about gentoo. but you can't drink the cool-aid about performance. really, you know the gentoo performance weenies are wrong when they talk about rebuilding their toolchain three times.
i like it because i can run wierd hardware and i don't have binary package dependency hell. (binary packages are untenable on a with dl libraries anyway.) also, they keep on top of security problems. - erik On Mon Aug 14 10:34:20 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Spend days building Ricer Linux so you can save .2 seconds loading > Firefox... I have met guys who do this, and talk about how great it is > on their (new) machines. I ask them how long they'll have to keep > using Gentoo to make up for the day of compilation. > That said, I have done Gentoo on an old SPARCstation in hopes that it > would run nicely. Splack Linux turned out better.
