On 15 March 2013, at 17:32, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
If you use the Gentoo hardened Tinfoil Linux you will need lots of ram
and wait ages to boot but firefox will just pop up.
I'm sorry, I don't understand this statement. Could you possibly explain,
please?
It's one of Blueness
On 03/18/2013 04:21 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
On 15 March 2013, at 17:32, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
If you use the Gentoo hardened Tinfoil Linux you will need lots of ram
and wait ages to boot but firefox will just pop up.
I'm sorry, I don't understand this statement. Could you possibly
It's one of Blueness projects based on Hardened Gentoo. It loads into
ram at boot (you need something like 4 gig of ram) which takes ages
from dvd but could be from an ssd/hdd (defeating half the point
without a ro switch though). It can update from the net once booted too.
Once
On 03/18/2013 05:38 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
It's one of Blueness projects based on Hardened Gentoo. It loads
into ram at boot (you need something like 4 gig of ram) which
takes ages from dvd but could be from an ssd/hdd (defeating half
the point without a ro switch though). It can update
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:28:04 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Even though it is from a DVD it can be updated just like standard
linux. The problem is, if you run out of ram then things get killed.
(Frankly, this sounds quite nice for kiosk environments.)
Could be
On 03/18/2013 08:10 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:28:04 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Even though it is from a DVD it can be updated just like standard
linux. The problem is, if you run out of ram then things get killed.
(Frankly, this sounds quite nice
On 15 March 2013, at 17:32, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
If you use the Gentoo hardened Tinfoil Linux you will need lots of ram
and wait ages to boot but firefox will just pop up.
I'm sorry, I don't understand this statement. Could you possibly explain,
please?
Stroller.
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:52:41 -0500
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for
my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to
the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary
distros don't allow
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:52:41PM -0500, Dale wrote
I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for
my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to
the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary
distros don't allow this, unless you
On 2013-03-15, Dale wrote:
I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my
question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the
specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros
don't allow this, unless you compile your own packages
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and
I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my
question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the
specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros
don't allow this, unless you compile your own packages which is no
longer
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
I just did a test, and they're all the same.
CDs/DVDS of various
On 14/03/2013 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
I just did a test, and
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
I just did a test, and they're all the same.
On 14/03/13 22:41, Dale wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
I just did a
Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
On 14/03/13 22:41, Dale wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:52:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
So, if I install Redhat on my machine, would it be less efficient than
my Gentoo install which is customized for my hardware? Has someone else
tested this and made it public?
No. They may have tested it on their machine, but not on yours, so
On 14/03/13 23:52, Dale wrote:
Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
On 14/03/13 22:41, Dale wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo
On 15/03/13 08:31, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
On 14/03/13 23:52, Dale wrote:
Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
On 14/03/13 22:41, Dale wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
...
RedHat maintainers aren't stupid (you can probably tell I've never
used RH) – they
On Mar 15, 2013 7:31 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk
wrote:
On 14/03/13 23:52, Dale wrote:
Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
On 14/03/13 22:41, Dale wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/03/2013 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe
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