My dalliance with Gentoo Linux

[mandy]

For quite some time now, I had wanted to install and try out Gentoo. But the experiences of other people showed that I should perhaps start installing it when I have at least a few days to myself. So the weekend prior to last when I got a few days off, it was Gentoo's chance for getting installed on this partition I talked about earlier.

Advantages of Gentoo

    * After all this trouble, what you get is a Linux distribution which is tailor made for your machine, blazing fast, with just the packages you need devoid of unnecessary baggage. In fact, if you can correlate other Linux distributions to a Honda motorcycle, ie rolled out from a factory assembly line, all looking and working alike, then Gentoo is a Harley Davidson of Linux distributions; no two installs identical to each other...

full article: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/01/my...linux.html