Re: New Distro

> I've seen few projects that offer as consistently good support as the 
> Gentoo community.  There's not a lot of commercial support (yet), but 
> between the excellent forums and self-documenting package management, 
> there's very little here that a skilled admin can't figure out.

Yes, I have heard many good things about Gentoo.  it is one I want to
check out.

> 
> 
>  > For example, one of the products that I install, does not run on
>  > Gentoo yet.
> 
> If what you mean is that there's no package listed in the Portage tree, 
> have you searched the forums?  Many users post their self-rolled ebuilds 
> for less-used programs and/or configurations.
> 
> It's also not that difficult to build your own ebuild scripts.  If you 
> maintain a large number of seats, there could be a real value to being 
> able to do this.

I don't know what the issue is.  I just read from other people on the
mailing list for the product that they can't get it to work.  But, I 
have been told that creating the scripts to install in Gentoo are not
that difficult.