Gentoo

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I tried gentoo a few times, and I have to say that it has the dishonor of being the only linux distribution that I tried where something "broke" without me doing anything.

I set up gentoo from stage 2 on my laptop, and got everything working as I wanted. I used it a few times with no problems (it was installed along side my normal distribution, debian). Then, I didn't touch it for a few months. Then, when I booted into gentoo again, my wireless didn't work. The module no longer wanted to load into the kernel and I had to recompile it.

I'm sure Gentoo is good for a lot of people, just not for me.

Well, the problem was letting it sit for a few months ;-). Gentoo is one of those bleeding edge distros, everything changes so often, recompiling a new kernel isn't a huge deal. Or at least for me.