OsirisGod  | 2007-07-08
Not for beginners
It's a source based distro that allows you to customize and optimize. Very well documented. It's my personal favorite.

Anonymous  | 2007-10-26
better and better
I started using Gentoo back in version 1.4 when there were far more update glitches. today they system is far more stable to upgrading and the documentation has grown in leaps bounds. The user base has always been friendly and helpful, unlike other forums on the net. Newer utilities and updates to the portage system make troubleshooting and updating far less painless. errors in emerge are far more informative. I took off some points for usability do to the complex nature of Gentoo and security because Gentoo does not include any default firewalls or acls but again is the nature of Gentoo.

Janos  | 2007-07-01
Gentoo Linux - aka Portage
Gentoo was initially supposed to be another Enoch Linux distribution. The goal was to create a distribution that was built from source code, tuned to the hardware, only included required programs, and decreased maintainer workload through scripting. A noble cause I might say, and at least one version of Enoch was distributed: version 0.75, in December 1999. After problems with a bug the developers system, Gentoo Linux was halted, and development switched to FreeBSD for several months. This led to Gentoo being described as a true next-generation ports system.