preferred linux distro for workstation usage?

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 09/13/2010 04:53 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
> The real question I would guess is why choose any Distro if you really
> don't like it?
> No one is forcing you to choose any of them.
>
> The great thing about 'Open Source' is, if you are willing to invest
> yourself in it, it
> can grow into anything you want.
>
> Most of us are willing to accept the efforts of others, then whine
> about what we don't
> like.  Gosh, that starts sounding like Winders or Mac heads!
>
> Most distributions are sill open to 'new packages' or 'meta packages'
> that mix more logical
> combinations of other packages.  If you really don't like it, consider
> being part of the
> solution, rather than the precipitate. [Sorry, I couldn't help myself. =
:]
I have not seen anyone using Gentoo. Gentoo is a bit different from
other distros is that it is generally a source distro where you build
just about the entire distro from sources. Rajiv Manglani has presented
Gentoo to the BLU on occasion and usually does a presentation at MIT in
January.

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