I was wondering why none on the mainstream distro's do this? they all want to be the fastest out there, so why not release a distro where on the kernel, rpm, and compiler and all depenencies for them are as binaries, and everything else is a src.rpm, which with some changes, MandrakeUpdate (or the install app) could then compile to source and install that...
I know that the differences between i586 and i686 is fairly small performance wise right now, but every little bit helps right? and for Athlons, which are gaining pretty fast in popularity, the differences would be more pronounced wouldn't they? and the difference in performance would be increased as compilers got better at optimised code... so why isn't anyone significant doing it? is it technically unfeasable?? would it make an install take 5 hours? anyone know why its not a popular approach? rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian J. Murrell Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Re: illegal binaries? On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:48:59AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hmm, interesting idea... Maybe I'll try to do something in this > direction ;) It's been done. I had heard that there is/was a Linux distro (was it Yellowdog?) that would install a "build kit" and then compile the entire distro for your hardware as part of the "OS install". This, IMHO would be a perfectly viable way for Linux distros to distribute things like Mplayer. Anything that can benefit even somewhat significantly from being built for the native processor could use this mechanism. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
