Nice to hear that others have put together viable systems on Gentoo. Just one note of clarification--I've managed to compile ardour, but I can't start it up because it's looking for the ardour_ui.rc file in the default place (/usr/local/music/src/ardour) which isn't created with the ebuild. In fact, ardour_ui.rc doesn't seem to exist anywhere on my system. Do you have to build it yourself. If so how? I can't find any documentation. I'm also running the Vanilla kernal. Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who had difficulties with the gentoo kernel. It would be great to put together some music/sound ebuilds for gentoo. Although I'm an intermediate Linux user, I'm not much of a programmer so I'd be happy to volunteer my writing abilities for documentation.