I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has anyone installed Gentoo on a Mac before? If so, what concerns are there related to things like Apple’s implementation of EFI?
How well does Gentoo work with “stable” systems? I can imagine having an OS making the most of modern hardware makes sense, but compile times especially for things that actually matter like Web browser or KDE, are probably insane? So I wouldnt update that often, but Gentoo is not a stable Distro right?