Slackware or Gentoo

[Fryguy8]

I've got quite a bit of experience with gentoo, and overall I had some stability problems with it. I don't really want to use debian again, and so that leaves slackware as the main choice (I want a mainstream distro).

Should I run Slack 10 over gentoo? Using an amd64 in 32-bit mode (NOT in 64-bit mode). I've got tons of horsepower to compile on gentoo, so it's not so much a problem. I've heard that in general though slackware is as fast or faster than gentoo even with opts?

Flame away and give biased opinions. I'm looking for any information relating thse 2 distributions to each other.

[madcompnerd]

Slackware. Even though I've heard lots of complaints about the last release, heh.

[thomas_nj]

Do not know so much about Slackware but I like Gentoo, so...

[je_fro]

Gentoo....no complaints.
Every problem I've ever had with it was solved by RTFM or searching their forums.

[duncanbojangles]

Tally up one more for a Slackware vote! Actually, make that four.

[mudra]

Another vote for slackware here !

Running Slackware 10.0 on my laptop and Desktop and I love it, best distro I've ever tried.

[serz]

Why not?

:)

[CoffeeMan]

Gentoo is okay, but Arch Linux is even better. It is a source/binary hybrid.

[jymbo]

I've used Arch, Debian, and Gentoo...and somehow always ended up right back where I Slacked from.:p