I tried Gentoo Linux about a year ago. I found it lovely till during a security update of perl it terminated portage and made it really hard to resurrect it, I reanimated it several times, but after mass suicde of perl, python and portage I decided to wait till 1.4 was out.
Now 1.4 is out and I would like to know if anyone has to tell some success story about uptime, stability etc...
It would be great to hear from many Gentoo users: "I've an uptime of 6 months on my 3 boxes and I never had major problems with my systems" or similar stories.
When a production server I run got hacked, I took the opportunity to switch to Gentoo from Slackware. The box is twice as responsive as it used to be and has been up with no problems since I did the install back in early August.
I also run Gentoo at home on my desktop system. I've been running it for about a year no with no *major* problems. There have been a few *minor* problems, but that is to be expected when you run with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to get the newest bleeding edge versions of everything down to the kernel.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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