On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:16:04PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Of course there are downsides either way, but there is no dispute
that the size of the Debian archive is huge, and mirrors are struggling
to keep up as a result.
Is this so? I havent seen reports in this area for a while.
Greetings
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 03:29, Diego Calleja García wrote:
Optimised binaries wont run slower than non-optimised binaries.
This simply isnt true. I have some code that takes a serious performance hit
when any sort of loop unrolling is used (pentium III systems) as the
instruction cache is too
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:29:09AM +0200, Diego Calleja Garc?a wrote:
Take into account the time you waste compiling. What do you want to
pay, bandwith or CPU usage? The answer isn't the same for everybody...
(if we want to touch perfection)
Consider the amount of resources mirrors could save
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030828 13:05]:
Actually Debian does not support i386 anymore for compatibility
reasons with other linux distriibutions. You canget the basics running
but anything that uses c++ will fail. And whats Debian without apt?
The debian kernels support i486
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Best would be if you could easily select the additional features
compiled in, like jpeg support.
You select gimp and it sees no libjpeg. It suggests libjpeg and one
has the choice. If libjpeg is then installed all packages that can use
libjpeg will also pop up
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El Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:22:28 +1000 Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Source based distro's are more bandwidth friendly as the source can be
reused to produce new revisions of existing packages.
As a developer i
Chris de Vidal wrote:
Volunteers needed!
http://debtoo.org
I guess you haven't read
Benchmarking Debian's Performance. Indranath Neogy tried to
[35]discover what kind of gains the source based nature of Gentoo
might give it over Debian and Mandrake. The tests included timing how
long it took
Some comments
Source code is more important than binaries, that we should all agree
on.
Fixing bugs that such a project uncovers makes Free software more
robusts and is good for the community.
Source based distro's are more bandwidth friendly as the source can be
reused to produce new
Debian is caching debs rather than targzs. What i got from here,
if the argument is on deciding on whether project shold cache-old
the source code tarballs rather then binaries - i got debs from here
as binary , because i did not come accross other binaries cached in
the system - , I cannot see
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Optimised binaries wont run slower than non-optimised binaries.
It actually does happen. One reason can be loop-unrolling and
cache-sizes.
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:22:28PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Source based distro's are more bandwidth friendly as the source can be
reused to produce new revisions of existing packages.
This is only true in cases where you get more than one Debian revision
out of a given upstream release of
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:14:41PM -0700, Chris de Vidal wrote:
Volunteers needed!
http://debtoo.org
You get Debian's benefits, like their stellar package
management, with *completely* optional optimization.
I would be interested in a source-based system that is focused on
convenience
Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:14:41PM -0700, Chris de Vidal wrote:
Volunteers needed!
http://debtoo.org
You get Debian's benefits, like their stellar package
management, with *completely* optional optimization.
I would be interested in a
El Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:22:28 +1000 Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Source based distro's are more bandwidth friendly as the source can be
reused to produce new revisions of existing packages.
As a developer i would _much_ rather have a cache of old source code
than a cache of
Volunteers needed!
http://debtoo.org
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El Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Chris de Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
escribió:
Volunteers needed!
http://debtoo.org
are you going to implement a USE flag equivalent?
(note: I don't like USE a lot)
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