Gentoo

[chipbricks]

Personally I am with gentoo, its for me like constructor where I can buit for me any system which I want. For example old laptop replced router to me. One desktop works as multimedia server and home server. So you can built many home toys on it.
But on web server in iternet I am perfer centos :D
So any OS targeted to its task.

[glennji]

Gentoo's power is also it's short-coming -- compiling software is non-trivial and CPU-intensive. (I remember trying Gentoo on an old Pentium 133 ... I left it running for something like three days to compile everything.)

100% agree with "OS targeted to its task".

(If you like Gentoo and want to learn stuff, look up Linux From Scratch. It's even more hard core.)