I have been reading up on Gentoo Linux during the day. Not that I'm in anyway unhappy with SuSE, but was interested in the rough idea. Has anyone here tried it? Is it indeed faster, as you would probably expect?
I've found it to be quite a bit faster, personally. Also, I've grown increasingly annoyed with the "RPM dependency issues" that pop up with RPM distros. Yes, i suppose that I can install stuff from YaST, but that still causes a bunch of other software to be dragged along with it. The "portage" system is pretty neat. Mirrors are fast. Everything is compiled/optimized for your hardware, from the ground up. The user forums are helpful. Overall, it's a pretty nice distro, IMO. but with any Linux distro, your milage may vary. Give them all a shot and use what works best for you. :-)