Recently installed gentoo and it seems to be really great. Is anyone using gentoo on this list ? Are there any caveats to consider while using it ?
yeps. a gentoo fan right here. no probs yet. absolutely none. check their forums, superb and hyperactive.
Watch those optimiser flags and make sure your USE variables are good.
true. just so that you would know Os gives really small binaries but they run a bit slow. and O2 gives O3 a good run for its money. Anything beyond is bull. I don't remember ( u install gentoo only once :)) ) but there's some script that suggests a sensible selection of opt flags.
I read somewhere on the net that #emerge --update system sometimes screws the system and makes it unusable.
yeps. can make if u have ~x86(masked packages) installed . for most purposes it doesn't frag ur system. But hey its much easier to pick the packages u want updated. Else its whole load of whatnot that gets compiled / installed.
looking forward to gentoo gripes, C