You just missed lots of talk about Gentoo. See here:
http://www.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/2003-July/thread.html
The impression I got, though I've yet to use it, was takes two days to do,
really neat, not ready for production use.
On 2003.07.30 16:56 Joey Kelly wrote:
> Hey y'all,
>
> I'm considering doing a fresh Linux install (my current system is SuSE 7.2,
> which was installed almost 2 years ago, and upgraded 1 year ago to SuSE 7.3
> ). Who has run Gentoo, and what are your thoughts about it? Mostly I want to
> hear from those who have been running Linux for a couple of years or more...
> the opinion of a newbie ("I just dual-booted my Windoze XP box last week, and
> Gentoo is great!") doesn't really interest me --- no offense, mind you --- I
> simply want a seasoned evaluation:-)
>
> To give you an idea of where I'm coming from, I also use NetBSD, and always
> compile apps instead of "pkg_add ftp://path/to/binary";. Since Gentoo's
> portage is taken from BSD ports, I'm interested in whether Gentoo will give
> me any justice.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
