> > Gentoo is a pain to maintain, and I would recommend it only if you > have a use case that justifies it. I was an avid Gentoo user in > college for three years, where I had the time to recompile the kernel > and other packages to enable/disable features. This is of course > solved if you use the genkernel script to generate the kernel in > gentoo, but that for me that would defeat the purpose of using of a > source only distro which allows customization and tweaks. > > Not entirely true. I work for a company where we have production servers running on Gentoo. Note that we have to maintain our own binary repo. But the performance is phenomenal.
> As far as support goes, the gentoo wiki used to be quite well > maintained. Not sure if that's the case these days. > Gentoo Wiki is maintained. IRC is friendly for support. Again, don't bother with Gentoo if you don't have time to invest. Not > saying it's a bad distro, in fact it is quite the opposite if you have > the time and energy to set it up to your liking. > True. -- Shyam
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