Only crazy people would pick Gentoo - Re: Linux on Power Mac G5

Gentoo is a great system. I use it on my "Rosetta" machine - a late model P4 with nearly every type of port and drive - SCSI DATs, Firewire, external SATA and IDE, ZIP and Jaz, GPIB, Token Ring and ATM cards - with a custom kernel compiled to access pretty much anything you can plug into it. The system has a huge chain of dependencies set as I want to support everything, and everything compiles and works just fine. I even have a crazy dual-toolchain setup where some libraries are compiled with the Intel compiler (for a nice 20-40% speed boost on media transcoding) no problems there either. I also use regular Ubuntu to play around with, Mythbuntu on a PVR and Debian on a small file server. I can't say I have any more problems with Gentoo than on any of my other systems.