klystron on 08 March 2010
I use Gentoo and paludis as my package manager. It's a very versatile system but it's not that hard to mess it up royally. (To be fair you can do this with any distro.) If you're new to linux then setting up a Gentoo machine is liable to be a daunting task. I tried using their friendly install dvd on amd64 and it was riddled with bugs including missing packages. So I stick to source installs.
