Over a year of Gentoo Linux!
First, an aside: Today I am a real Blogger. I am posting this from a coffee shop in Toronto!
January 10th (or thereabouts) marks the 1 year anniversary of me getting bored with a Windows XP workstation and installing Linux for the first time in many years. Since then I’ve added a wee Ubuntu box and a PowerMac G4 running OS X Leopard (a topic for a different post) to my managre,

February 5th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
If you ever need a tar of a package, I automatically have a tar of everything as I set the FEATURES=buildpkg in my make.conf. So I have backups of every package on my system.
If you have the space (2-4 gig) I highly recommend setting it, it’s saved my life (and compile time) a ton over the years.