Gentoo

It greatly depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you'd like
the experience of building everything from nothing, stage 1 is for you
(I did that just to see if I could). If you've done it before, don't
care about micromanaging system tweaks, or need the system up and
running soon, then stage 3 is the way to go.

Bob Cober wrote:

> Thanks for the comments...
>
> I've been an avid RedHatter for some time - I'm even a RHCE(stop your
> laughing now hehe ;-)), but Gentoo looks really great. Portage sounds
> good too...
>
> So Gentoo - Here I come!!!
>
> Any recommendations for which "stage tarball" to use? Fro the site:
>
> "The stage1 tarball is used when you want to bootstrap and build the
> entire system from scratch. The stage2 tarball is used for building the
> entire system from a bootstrapped "semi-compiled" state. The stage3
> tarball already contains a basic Gentoo Linux system that has been built
> for you..."
>
> Stage1?
>