Never tried that specific distribution myself. I did try a few other
distros:
Star....something (cool lightning background
image)
SUSE.... before Novell signed their MS
agreement
RedHat
Caldera
LFS (built the base a couple
times)
Mandriva (in their Mandrake form)
Ubuntu (before they
started putting mono in it)
Each of the pre-built distros had little quirks
that I had to regularly fix (regularly meaning little things that carried over
from one version to another).
I liked the level of control over the
software LFS provided. I especially liked the fact they had a full listing of
all the executables that got built with a particular package so you could
clearly see what is coming from where. As you can imagine, the time it takes to
go through each of the packages deciding what you're going to build, setting up
the appropriate compile commands, etc. can get quite time
consuming.
Gentoo was a nice balance between control over the software
that's installed and having a more automated packaging process to handle the
download/compile/install processes. It takes quite a bit of up-front planning
for the USE flags though. And not all of them work together nicely "out of the
box" so-to-speak. So once in a while, one has to trouble shoot a particular
installation and resolve the conflict causing a software compile
failure.
To avoid that up-front work, one could just accept the default
Desktop template - but then, that'd be someone else making the decision for you
which software to install ;)
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