<p>I’ve been playing around with different Linux distros recently (I’m part way through a LFS build, I’ve played around a little with Arch, built a Gentoo VM, etc), and I ran across Source Mage and it seemed cool. Has anyone used it, and if so, how does it compare to other distros in terms of stability, usability (well, insomuch as a source based distro ever has good usability) etc?</p>
<p>It looks like it’s very minimalist. If I were you, I’d just download and test it out.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, I’m just playing around with it, I’m not planning on using it as a main OS. It’s been an…interesting experience so far (the dialogue for compiling the kernel allows you to try to install things with dependencies that won’t work yet because, obviously, you don’t have a kernel tree yet, so they can’t build against it). It seems like a cool source-based distro to try out for a little while.</p>