achive a smooth transition from one redhat/mandrake/debian version to another.) With gentoo there is never such an upgrade, just the transition to the next version of each package.
Out of interest, how is stability/QA of gentoo guaranteed? Debian unstable works exactly like Debian, you upgrade from package to package and as the name suggest you get no grantees of stability.
My choice, others have legit reasons for their choices.
I suspect that a frequently-updating compile-from-source gentoo user is
spending more CPU time per application than is healthy ...
Especially with distributed.net, seti, protein folding, and other worthy causes clamouring for your CPU cycles ...
-jim
