I felt like sharing, and this seems better suited here than my personal journal.

-I
took SuSE8 off my laptop and have spent the past couple of days installing
Gentoo. No major problems; I screwed something up by trying to play around
with it during the install the first go round and couldn't get X to install.
Started over from scratch, no problem at all.

-Holy hell did it take
X/KDE forever to compile! I did it all at once (emerge kde); it took a little
more than 5 hours on my PIII 1.2 GHz. I'd compiled X from scratch before,
and KDE from scratch before, but never at the same time. I was expecting
maybe 2 hours at the most. Hopefully I won't have to do it again.

-First
impressions: I'm really impressed. I used to be a big Slackware freak. Gentoo
brings all that back. And I'm really liking portage so far.

-Still
using a more or less stock SuSE7.3 on my desktop. Beginning to realize how
outdated its getting. Once I get the laptop straightened out, I think I'll
at least update KDE and install a new kernel. I wouldn't mind putting Gentoo
on here too. Think I'll play with it on the laptop for a lil while first.
Or at least wait 'till I'm gonna be busy for a while.

-Now I'm gonna go see if I can get my wireless setup under Gentoo.