> I've used Gentoo, a little FreeBSD and never felt like it was that much different than .debs. There is quite a difference in speed of the standard stuff comp

> I've used Gentoo, a little FreeBSD and never felt like it was that much different than .debs. There is quite a difference in speed of the standard stuff compared to customized optimization, e.g. via USE flags. I found that actually bootup as well as system speed is faster. (tested that on Asus eeepc)