El Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:16:58 +0000
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:

> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 01:49, Richard Fish wrote:
> 
> > I'm starting to suspect everybody is a "ricer".
> 
> Er, what's one of those? I assume it's an Americanism.
> 
Nah, it is a word that people around use to use to name those persons
that think that any hyper patched kernel is the best thing to make your
computer like 10 times faster. Those use also to have an insane amount
of custom cflags, ldflags and the like. Of course, for a ricer is also
important to run ~arch for most packages, except for system packages
and the toolchaing, where they usually prefer to use something like
gcc-7.0_alpha1 releases (joking, of course).

It somewhat a word play, with "racer", like if all these so-called
"optimizations" made your box go at the speed of light :P

You can find a funny thread about ricers and "ricing" in general in the
gentoo forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-309752-highlight-ricer.html

Jesús.

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