-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter >> of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the <snip> > I also get sick and tired of installing postfix on a database machine purely > to send nagios alerts, and watching the distro "helpfully" want to pull in > PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, SASL, Courier and some fancy MTA-switcher thingy. > All because the maintainer enables those features and now I gotta have them. > > No thanks. Rather give me USE so I say what goes on the box.
I'd have to agree. The main advantage of Gentoo over binary distributions is that it is a great deal more configurable than any of the major binary distributions. *I* choose, through USE flags, what I want to be pulled in, compiled and merged. I have tried Debian, *BSD, Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora Core, and others. I have found them to be bloated and slower, compared to Gentoo (any time you have to pull in over 500 binary packages to install a single package, there is definite bloat). I will mention that the performance optimizations for Gentoo mainly lie in the kernel configuration (the binary distributions compile just about everything you can imagine into their kernels), and in fine tuning the USE flags, so you you don't pull in anything you neither want nor need, thus limiting bloat. JMHO. Regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJJiUNdAAoJEIAhA8M9p9DApqoP/0HN0uJHfbjQ63yq0lwubW6k NqLrchH9/xzczxuK2Vj/cat7xtxK4BdDHq92Hur5M+zj2qd3sOIroVxQLNp/K6Qo gy8efsI5HGoWSFLhLdXJp3xuncD5EL0kERFqQ0TSa9ugRVK2b0M2dukMQ08D5lMg 0lBLa5kZKnaYy7QJhAAwRMgHjkr/tIDn2KcPMaC39xwcxWh/iDKa8kVODYsmt6gX yvTuaLJMpUWLhAYAf9tWSo7zE29wNRoBQCE0K8m1A25hf+dZ5+Iw+poM7qAPkssE eD/FDqyl21LfpILQgp8SwqXOKNnVZ8sU/fRihlsixYfA2UDNtscjk6DmNRfq8r5L UrhcU3BFCExu5Yg180Q3G8WcmCs1WgE9tEY95DTyuE7p4KH9fkIi/fUMSSnLdYmP NCO75iq+HTOFImMHdsaYP5l4QJp5ktVJzyxzEZKo3lbkiKODRovj8IQOkzltGgIS rbfhbiyTG0xAbK3IlhzR+tH4ncYyNWOTql+bbXgD35P4awolR/zWVaTSsiCwDsQg XWfoN/J+XoasjJd363PpwHCFe8G+4dM75dUQkri6lgMcRrrVeLCpNdr5ae3AXEMb CHRMZt9OlTaam6VjQGGTDahWoU8dFIy4GYLF2bMaOnU0VrPOu/ENoEjECXm4mjiq OcwGvpSdLX6Mvan0iX9l =vtJv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
