I ran gentoo for a while (and still am on one machine), and while the amount of customization that is possible is wonderful, I just don't have the time to be constantly compiling things to keep my system up-to-date.
I've recently installed ArchLinux and I think it provides the best of both worlds. It is a primarily binary based distro, but makes it very easy to build those packages from source, if you need to tweak something.
The package builder is very straightforward. I've only been using Arch a few days and have already built a number of custom packages.
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I ran gentoo for a while (and still am on one machine), and while the amount of customization that is possible is wonderful, I just don't have the time to be constantly compiling things to keep my system up-to-date.
I've recently installed ArchLinux and I think it provides the best of both worlds. It is a primarily binary based distro, but makes it very easy to build those packages from source, if you need to tweak something.
The package builder is very straightforward. I've only been using Arch a few days and have already built a number of custom packages.