On November 19, 2004 12:44 pm, Nick W wrote: > > > I might try Gentoo again down the road but only when installs would be > > > less painful. > > > > Just do a stage 3 install. Stage 1 is overkill in 99% of cases. That'll > > cut the install to about 1-2 hours without cutting the learning aspect at > > all. > > but it takes away your bragging rights :D kinda like the whole 'I installed > Debian' thing... > > > Then install xorg, and kde from packages. (if you need them). > > > > You can go back an optimize for your specific machine after it's already > > up and running by emerging the packages you already have. Besides, there > > are better places to find benefits than gentoo's customized for your > > machine. Don't get me wrong, that's all cool and everything, but the > > difference is getting smaller all the time. prelinking KDE > > ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml) makes a bigger > > difference than any optimization I've ever seen from cflags or anything > > like that. > > Yup. For that matter, ayone ever tried Yoper linux? They claim to rival > Gentoo's speed by prelinking everything...plus its supposed to have a > working portage implementation.
I have tried yoper... it is a very nice distro (I didn't use it extensively, though). If it has a working portage implementation, then... it could give gentoo a definite run for its money. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
