I confess I too have been somewhat disturbed that Gentoo is suffering from severe growing pains. Early on in the piece I realized that running 'Stable' was going to be less satisfactory than 'Unstable' so I have had the ~x86 thingie enabled for a long time. Note that I do not run anything which is 'hard-masked'.
Recently I d/l the PCBSD cd and have installed it on a Dual P/III machine which has lots of memory. So far, a few hours, I am quite impressed. The base install uses KDE-3.5.x. It looks nice and so far there haven't been any problems, but I don't think it's using both CPUs fully. I hope discussing *BSD is not considered too off topic on linux-users, that I'll get harassed out of the community. Yes, I've has a brief play with KUbuntu, but was not sufficiently enamoured by it to make the change on my regular machine. -- CS
