On or near Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:06PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote something
along the lines of:
> There are definitely security benefits from stripping unwanted services from
> your system and I rather like to know that my system (and ports) are up to
> date with the latest patches which occ
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 23:09, Mike Hernandez wrote:
...
> I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing
> everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just
> wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I
> build my kerne
-fomit-frame-pointer IS EVIL. Do not use it. portupgrade won't build
with it, cause ruby hates -fomit-frame-pointer. I would just do a
fresh binary install. 6.0 is quite an amazing release... The speed
is remarkable. My machine goes way faster than it did before.
I am using the following CFL
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 16:09, Mike Hernandez wrote:
> I'm just wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance
> increases if I build my kernel and base system from source. Of course
> either way my ports will be compiled.
I think there is, but I end my optimizations at setting th
Hello all!
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 now, and of course I'm thinking about my upgrade
to 6.0. What I'm wondering is if it's a Good Idea or a Bad Idea (tm) to
build everything from source. I have experience building linux from scratch
(linuxfromscratch.org) and I have learned that sometimes it's just
