Alan McKinnon wrote:
Sorry, but that's never a good reason for using Gentoo. If a binary
distro compiles every option under the sun then the software will still
work, but the binaries might be a bit big. Compiling on your machine
gives no discernable performance benefit for the average
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Dale wrote:
Use the Live CD if you want to get a working machine quickly. If
watching gcc output scroll off the screen turns you on (it does for
most of us around here) then use the minimal by all means.
This is true. Gentoo updates pretty fast. A lot
Hello,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote:
I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a
*LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and
Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especially true if you
customize all the flags you
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote:
I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a
*LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and
Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especially true
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:37:44AM +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote
Well, yes, it may be faster a bit, like 1%, maybe 10%??? But if one distro
would be unbearable slow, gentoo would be too. It won't just be faster
10 times, and yes, that 10% are nice, but not usually worth switching
your
I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I just
got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor. I have
tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse, mandriva.
All had problems serious enough to not use them. The problems may stem
from
Mike Adolf wrote:
I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I just
got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor. I have
tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse, mandriva.
All had problems serious enough to not use them. The
Thomas Lingefelt wrote:
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As to the medium. I use the minimal personally. The Live has an
automated installer but I've never been able to get it to work.
Read this, it will be your best friend during the install...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
Hope this
On Monday 19 February 2007, Mike Adolf wrote:
I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I
just got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor.
I have tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse,
mandriva. All had problems serious enough to
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