I must be an odd one then ...I have built it numerous times on anything from a p120 to my desktop (only a p3 733 sdram baby)(and the first few times were over dialup lol) , I REALLY like the package management though ;-) and like the ability to build an os how I want it .
Cheers Dale. On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:31, you wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:19, Jason wrote: > > 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. > > This is rather relative, your still dealing with a fairly decent Machine > there. An athlonXP is alot faster than my k6-2 450Mhz it took me 8 hours to > compile Gnome 2 when it came out with out any fancy flags. And the Kernel > it self takes 40mins even when I've cut it down to only the modules and > bits required to run on my computer! The kernels I compile won't run on any > other machine unless they have the same cpu, mobo, sound card, network card > and so forth. > > Also Athlon XP's get one of the biggest boost's > when compiled for (I've heard figures in the area of 30% mentioned for some > apps.) However for older computer K6-2's k6-3's pentium II etc the speed > boost is not noticeable compared to runing packages compiled for i586 > (Mandrake's target). As for things like boost speed that is less to do with > recompiling the machine for your cpu than it has to doing with you setting > up the machine with only those things you need enabled or installed. > Package based distros are designed to be run on as many machine as possible > remeber and therefore trade some speed for portability. Several times it's > been discused moving Mandrake to an i686 target in Cooker but it's allways > been rejected as testing has not revealed enough of a boost and after that > level you start having to compile for indiviual chips (eg either P4 or > Athlon the only exceptions being some multimedia stuff which gets a nice > boost from MMX and SSE). Any way if you real want to recompile mandrake > linux for your computer it's easy enough simply mirror the src.rpm > directory or cvs set up your .rpmrc file with the optomisations you want > and start the job!after compileing you'll have a full verion of Mandrake > compiled for what every you set the flags to. Also you'll be able to > distribute this version to any other Machine you or friends have with the > same or similar specs. As well as creating your own isos and every thing > all the tools are avaliable. > > > 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. > > Perhaps but my computer will spend less time installing the new version > than it will compiling the new apps as they're updated. And I've never had > problems with urpmi. And I'd bet if you installed a version of Gentoo and a > version of Debian then waited to the next version came out and updated > using there respective methods apt-get vs emerge (or what ever it's called) > that debian would be updated quicker and with less probems. > > I'm quite happy to admit that gentoo is one of the better distros for those > with decent computers but for those of use with 3-4 year old or older > machines a package based distro is alot lot better! > > Chad > > PS please do not use this as an excuse to start a flame war!
