Gentoo, anyone?

So, do any of you have any recent experience with Gentoo? I’m looking to do some stuff with it, and would like to get tips, opinions, etc. from current users with current knowledge. There seems to be a lot of information on the Gentoo site, but a lot of it seems perhaps out of date.

After using it extensively at both home and work for the past few years, I can’t say I recommend it. Unless you have inordinate amounts of time and patience, and need extremely granular levels of customization in your installed packages, there’s simply no need for it.

– Lou

Thanks for the advice, Lou. After using it not so extensively, I’m pretty sure I agree with you.

Apparently, there is a requirement to use Gentoo at my new job in order to support our software development team, but I’m working to reduce that requirement so as to run it on as few machines as possible, replacing with Ubuntu server wherever I can. I really like the mostly Debian-ness of Ubuntu from a technical standpoint combined with the operational plus of a regularly scheduled upgrade interval.