EWeek has a story up about Gentoo Linux. Despite characterizing it as generally unfit (or just unready) for "enterprise" use, it is generally a glowing report. The author seems to want to like Gentoo Linux very much, and although he stops short of recommending it for "production use", he marks it as a distribution to "keep an eye on."
Gentoo stays consistently in the top ten distributions at distrowatch.com, makes the first page of links in general google search for "linux", and, as the article states, does seem to be among the worlds most popular Linux distributions.
A couple other recent articles (link link) mention Gentoo as one of the beneficiaries of Red Hat’s giant mis-step with the Open Source community — that is, their cessation of Red Hat Linux. Sure there’s Fedora, but that was very clearly not "Red Hat"; I think a lot of people turned away from Red Hat following this move; I know I did. I was a Red Hat user, and quite content with it. I was playing around with other distributions, but I don’t remember really getting serious with switching until Red Hat’s PR blunder (they pretty much suggested that home users might want to just use Windows…). It was around then that I discovered Gentoo Linux, and I’ve been a die-hard Gentoo fanatic ever since.
All that being said, I’m burning a copy of Fedora Core 3 right now to install over top of the PC which is currently running Ubuntu Linux. After FC3, I think I’ll be checking out Libranet, which a friend of mine (Hi Will!) has recently recommended. Why? I just like to know how everything works.
