Gentoo!!!

Finally installed Gentoo last night, and am upgrading packages and installing lotsa stuff right now. The best thing is its package management system, called the "portage", it handles dependencies beautifully.. something like debian, but this thing downloads the source(you can make it get only binaries also), compiles it and installs it.. complete with all its dependencies.

One of the first things I wanted to install was 3d Accelerated drivers for my nForce mboard. Usually, i would download the drivers, install 'em .. n hope that they worked. But here.. all i had to do was

emerge nvidia-kernel

emerge nvidia-glx

.. and 1 or 2 more commands and it was done! Working nice n cool!!! :D

Gnome-2.8 is getting downloaded and installed right now. The cool thing about this distro is that it has the package files(.ebuilds) for almost any linux software that you can think of!!! I wasn't expecting to find dockapps for WindowMaker but I was wrong.. very wrong! It has ebuilds for lots n lots of dockapps.. I'll post a snapshot of my desktop in a while..

I'll post back with more of my experiences with gentooo... Returning to exploring and installing more apps..