> NOTE: It is NOT that the Gentoo install is all that difficult. It just > takes a lot of time to build everything. on a recent cpu you can build xorg in about 25 minutes, including its ancillary libaries. add another 25 for firefox. and a couple for fluxbox. hardly 2 days.. > first time through. In fact, if you have a junk machine sitting around > I would STRONGLY recommend building Gentoo on it, getting it running, > and then sending it back to the junk pile but before that, equery list | xargs quickpkg. so you can use it as a PORTAGE_BINHOST so your next install will take 5 minutes instead of 50 ;) > After Gentoo is built the big advantage is you never have to > 'upgrade'. actually, you do. it mainly involves replacing a symlink to /etc/make.profile every 3 months, and hoping this doesnt break things badly :) if you are going from eg 2004.3 to 2005.1 (skipping 2005.0), i can guarantee you will probably have issues with your toolchain, eselect, or something..hopefully you dont get glibc/gcc errors that create a catch22 situation wrt building further updates..its happened to me, especially when updating to a multilib setup. the main reason i'd recommend gentoo is the proaudio overlay. im fairly sure nobody is even close to that amount of binary coverage on the binary distros..
