I was involved in a discussion about OSes today and the subject of Gentoo came up – it’s funny how Gentoo always manages to attract flak from just about anyone who isn’t a Gentoo user. I’m thinking maybe that watching all that shit scroll by while they install something makes people think they know more than what they really do, so they start making outlandish claims and wind up looking stupid.
Personally, I’m still not a huge fan of Open Source OSes for the desktop. Like I said earlier today, security notwithstanding most every other criticism of Windows just plain isn’t true any more… I haven’t had to do the daily-reboot thing with any NT-based OS starting from NT4.
For server OSes, FreeBSD’s my thing… a Daemon’s always going to be cooler than a tuxedo penguin, but really it’s all about the hier(7). For that reason, I really can’t conceive of why something like debian/kfreebsd exists – if anything I’d prefer the wide swath of hardware support covered by a nice clean BSD userland, not the other way around.
I seriously cringe every time someone goes “oh, you like FreeBSD? You should try Gentoo – it’s a lot like BSD”. Seriously, no… stop saying this. 