So, at one of my jobs, I needed to build two machines.  One was a 
'build machine' for the company's product, the other was an Amanda 
server.  Both are more or less the same hardware, except the former 
needed to run Gentoo Lignux, and the Amanda server was my choice.

So I downloaded the latest 'gentoo live CD', and downloaded the NetBSD 
1.6.2 ISO. Burned them both, and got started.  I used 'sysinst' on 
1.6.2 for probably the second or 3rd time in my life.  I have to say, I 
was impressed.  I could only think of a couple minor improvements 
(well, semi-major).  Anyway, within about 7 minutes, I had the NetBSD 
machine booted off disk and running.  The gentoo machine was still 
fumbling along and I was meticulously following the micro-steps 
involved in getting the distribution off CD and onto disk.  So while 
the NetBSD machine downloaded a -current snapshot from 
releng.netbsd.org, I watched the Gentoo machine try to bootstrap 
itself.  It's amazing just how much of the work you have to do to 
install Lignux.  At least this species of Lignux.  You have to fdisk, 
make filesystems, mount, copy the dist off CD, chroot, untar, edit a 
hundred files, build a kernel.  Then you have to recompile everything, 
and _then_ you still have to download/build cron, syslog, sshd, etc.

By the end of the day, the NetBSD-current machine was already running 
amanda dumps to hard-disk and the gentoo machine wouldn't even boot 
itself.  Turns out a few of the steps in their online documentation are 
incorrect so now I have to screw with the worst bootloader in the world 
(grub) and try to figure out what's wrong.

Yay NetBSD!  Linux sucks!