Not to beat a dead horse but... (Score 1)

Gentoo is very representative of the linux culture. Just think about it, it's a community based distro and it changes rapidly.(gee, does this remind us of the linux kernel?) My standpoint is that corporate america has nothing to do with Linux. If anything it's the exact opposite. Who needs money hungry white collar shirts when you can have a badass o/s available at your fingertips, and for free?!? Gentoo and Linux (and dare I say old school redhat, slack, and the rest) have given M$ a run for their server money. I think the world needs to be liberated from crappy computing, once and for all. Sure, worms will abound for linux if it becomes the standard. But guess what, every single smart programmer in the world can look at it and make it better. What's M$ got on that? nothing. I think Microsoft couldn't have made a better decision of "closing the patches to legit copies" because that's just going to help people migrate to a descent O/S. Linux, BSD, that's where it's at. As far as best distro for power admins, if you really are a linux head, it's natural to choose a community distro, because that's what Linux has been all along. Community based. Who cares if you can pay 3 grand a month to get some monkey who reads you a script over the phone and asks you to check ifconfig when you call tech support? Use the 'net! google, blogs, forums.. it's already there! Linux needs to unite as a community, corporate distros are good to integrate linux into business, but are bad because they are reluctant to change -- shit redhat is still on 2.4.9 on their ES 2.1 release.That's a joke! Information Tech needs to change their way of thinking to really ride the Linux wave.