On Friday 11 March 2005 08:05, Michael Haan wrote: > I agree. i don't think it's so much the optimizations as it is the > reduction in software bloat.
My thoughts exactly.
> Although, it is nice to know I'm running
> 64 bit sw on my 64 bit CPU and to know that portage supports 64 bit sw
> distribution, whereas apt-get does not.
That's not quite accurate. apt supports a straight 64-bit system, it just
doesn't support biarch (mixed 64- and 32-bit) systems. Note that yum and
smart both support biarch without a problem though. Of course, yum is
RPM-only (I believe), but smart has support for debs as well.
[...]
> > I think that the biggest reason Gentoo boxes seem faster has little to
> > do with such optimizations and everything to do with the fact that
> > Gentoo users tend to install less software. Having to wait for
> > everything to build enforces a little discipline :-)
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