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distccKnoppix

Have you tried distccKNOPPIX?? I haven't needed one yet, but that's the one I'd try first.

distcc is pretty handy in that kinda situation :)

Slow PC? fine, get a faster one on the LAN to compile it for you, infact get them all to help. No spare nix machines? Use distccKnppix.

Once I figured out how to use distcc, I stopped whining about compile times with gentoo. It isn't ideally efficient, but adding a new machine basically adds a denominator to your compile time. Not everyone has several machines at their disposal, but if you do, the experience of using gentoo can be much improved by parallel compilation.

You might also want distccKnoppix, which is a slick method to use your other non-gentoo boxen to help out.

-Right off the bat, where the heck is the volume control? Should be on the default desktop, not deep in the application menu as 'kmix'.
I agree.

-With all due respect to Konqueror, Mozilla should be the default browser on the desktop.
Nah, I disagree. First off, Mozilla takes a long time to load. Firebird is great, but I think that keeping the consistent look of all KDE apps is a Good Thing (TM). Also, what specifically do you like about Mozilla that Konqueror doesn't have?

-I don't know what's up with Kpackage, but I love apt-get.
Yeah... KPackage is strange, though it does work very well for installing individual .debs that have been downloaded. Synaptic is cool, but it's a little slow because of how crazily complete it is. apt-get rules.

-IM is pretty important to the masses, why not make a good multiprotocol client like Gaim the default?
That's what Kopete is for! I can't remember if it's included in KDE 3.1.4 which is what Mepis uses, because I installed orth's KDE CVS HEAD .deb's for sid.

-Mepis does a good job putting a GUI face on many of the system config stuff, but they are still spread over a number of menus. It would help if they were consolidated under one heading, similar to Windows control panel, although come to think of it everythings not under that either.
Yeah, that does leave something do be desired... but I think it's more the job of the KDE folks than the Mepis folks to get that done. I'm sure that in the relatively near future (KDE 3.2, 3.3...) the Mepis config utilities will be obselete/assimilated into KDE. But already, the KDE Control Center is far more centralized than Windows Control Panel ever was; notice how you don't have to click through fifteen "property boxes" just to get to anything useful. Sadly, KControl doesn't do much hardware configuration at all. I'm sure that's coming, though.

Debian Sid users can get the latest kde debs from the cvs here.