On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:19, Jason wrote: > I am sure that Gentoo is awesome, it sounds it. BUT, I cannot be arsed > compiling from source for EVERYTHING I want to install, I have better > things to do with my time. Plus, I don't have the expertise to > "optimise" my packages properly anyway. I honestly wonder what the > performance difference is on modern hardware anyway...and if you are not > using fairly modern hardware, I would think it precluded the use of > Gentoo anyway due to compilation time.
Couldn't pass up on this ;)...Sure Gentoo takes a bit of time and effort to install but it's worth it. You get a stable system without the bloat. Optimizing package is easy, you simply have to edit one file and there's plenty of tips on how to do it. And optimization does work. I've got an Athlon XP 1600+ and Gentoo starts KDE in at least 2/3s the time of Mandrake. One of my friends just installed Gentoo and for the first time, a. he understands a lot more of what is going on in his system, b. all his hardware works c. The system is the fastest it's ever been. So yeah, gentoo takes a lot of time and effort to install, but once you've installed it you have a system that is easily maintanable (you don't have to reinstall the distro everytime a new release comes out), that has the best package management system ( :) ) and one that is fast. -- Simon Hansman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
