This weekend I was playing with Gentoo again (www.gentoo.org) for some purpose built servers. I have a fond love for this little distribution. There are some people who are considered 'purists' in the sense that they feel everything should be compiled from scratch from the get. There are others who don't wish to 're-invent the wheel' and feel that someone's already done the legwork and why should they not take advantage. I would say this, for most people distributions that are already compiled are perfect. For my particular application of purposed built, high-horsepower, servers, I felt gentoo may offer some additional advantages, such as compilation with additional CFLAGS. But I'd love feedback from everyone on their take of all this. #hardcore