There are no guarantees for *any* software--commercial, open source, or otherwise.I was wondering on how gentoo is financed and kept running. Up till now I was using Suse which is pretty stable and I can expect that Sue will continue living. In the worst case it will probably be bought (like now from Novell) but the distribution itself will survive. I now installed gentoo last week in a seperate installation to get a feel for it and I like it because it solves some issues I have with Suse. The only thing I wonder about is if I can expect gentoo being still available in a year (so to speak). I would hate to change to a distribution and after some time it dies and I will have to switch again.
I chose Gentoo because it has features I'm looking for and is the most configurable distro I've found (beyond going to LFS). I'm came from Red Hat Linux 9 which I've used since version 6. I never thought it would go away, but it did--so here I am.
Fact is, if Gentoo goes away (knock on wood) I'll seek out other options--just as I did with Red Hat. This is a part of life--nothing lives for ever.
If Gentoo suites your needs and you like it, use it. The more people who use it the stronger it'll become and the less likely it'll fade into the distance.
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