On Thursday 07 Feb 2008 12:15:24 Rony wrote:
IMHO, for kernel hacking its fine but for learning Linux administration and packages, all this will tie him down and divert him from other post installation tasks. For starters, a system that works fairly out of the box should suffice.
I completely disagree. I've learnt of so many issues that I'd never come across had I not used Gentoo. Some of them have been Gentoo specific of course, but that happens on all the distros.