On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what
to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P
and when the nice installer fucks
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what
to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P
and
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 12:36, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate
in a different manner to the way the thing will be used.
Because
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what
to do rather than go read docs
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what
to do rather than go read docs
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 14:53, Saphirus Sage escribió:
Cocoy Dayao wrote:
There are certain situations where the step-by-step installer isn't
adequate. For instance, when I was installing gentoo on my G4, it was
straight forward and easy, but when I decided to do a minimal install on
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 16:23, Grant Edwards escribió:
On 2009-02-05, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote:
The type of user I don't like is the ignorant type. Innocent
users are ok, they don't know, but ignorant users choose not to know.
Surely there are things you use without knowing
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 20:00, Mike Edenfield escribió:
On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people
who don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if
something does not work. Idiots.
They
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:03:30 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote:
Gentoo is not a distro. You don't use it, It's a metadristro
that can be used to build a proper distro, after that you can
use the final product.
It's a flatpack distro ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Hi, I'm not a signature virus. Why
Saphirus Sage wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
You're screwed anyway if you can't use the CLI installer correctly.
Reading the docs is fine, but they're written for geeks, not normal
people. Normal people don't have a clue what the docs are talking
about :)
It seems to me that not to many
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
SNIP
and gentoo was never meant for the clueless.
Ah, come on Volker, say what's true. My 81 year old dad uses Gentoo
and he cannot use vi.
Maybe you really meant, but didn't say, 'Gentoo was never meant
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I
feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and
follow what the doc is trying to convey.
--Joshua Doll
I
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
It's not The community vs. you, you are part of the community
since the very moment you start using linux.
Most people don't want to be some part of some weird community. They
just want to use a computer. If they were looking for friends, they
might try the local
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I
feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
because it kept the 'i am too cool to read the docs' idiots away. Being forced
to read the documentation is a good thing - and it did not hurt gentoo's
popularity. Only after it started to catering to idiots and more and more of
loud mouthed 'I am the centre of the
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
SNIP
and gentoo was never meant for the clueless.
Ah, come on Volker, say what's true. My 81 year old dad uses Gentoo
and he cannot use vi.
Maybe
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I
feel they are so well written and
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 21:25, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
It's not The community vs. you, you are part of the community
since the very moment you start using linux.
Most people don't want to be some part of some weird community. They
just want to use a
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 22:01, Jesús Guerrero escribió:
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 21:25, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
It's not The community vs. you, you are part of the community
since the very moment you start using linux.
Most people don't want to be
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:25:11 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Most people don't want to be some part of some weird community. They
just want to use a computer. If they were looking for friends, they
might try the local sports club.
Who are these people on whose behalf you speak? Why should
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Handbook and
-Original Message-
From: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:43:43
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system'
-- huh?
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com
wrote:
I
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I
feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and
follow what the doc is trying to convey.
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree. I like the control also.
I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new
user' could read, follow it and understand what
Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree. I like the control also.
I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new
user' could read, follow it
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I
like the control also.
I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new
user'
Saphirus Sage wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I
like the control also.
I only took a *very* small
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Saphirus Sage wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I
like the control also.
I only took
Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Saphirus Sage wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
On 5 Feb 2009, at 23:12, Joshua D Doll wrote:
... Also man pages lacking valuable information is the reason why
GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to using info!
I suspect the reason for this is far more about navigation then
contents. GNU can rewrite all their man pages if
On 5 Feb 2009, at 23:03, Saphirus Sage wrote:
...
Man pages are notoriously bad. The gentoo handbook and other official
docs are great OTOH.
Man pages notoriously bad?! Now that's a stance I can hardly
understand,
they've always been a godsend in my experience! Just practice using a
El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 4:03, Stroller escribió:
My experience is that only after learning the syntax of manpages (is
that itself documented?) do I find most of them tremendously easy to
navigate to find the one specific option I'm looking for.
If all the problem about man pages is
On 6 Feb 2009, at 03:08, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 4:03, Stroller escribió:
My experience is that only after learning the syntax of manpages (is
that itself documented?) do I find most of them tremendously easy to
navigate to find the one specific option I'm looking
El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 5:40, Stroller escribió:
less [-[+]aBcCdeEfFgGiIJKLmMnNqQrRsSuUVwWX~] [-b space] [-h lines] [-j
line] [-k keyfile] [-{oO} logfile] [-p pattern] [-P prompt] [-t tag]
[-T tagsfile] [-x tab,...] [-y lines] [-[z] lines]
[-# shift] [+[+]cmd] [--] [filename]...
On Friday 06 February 2009 06:40:01 Stroller wrote:
If the problem is contents then that's nothing to do with
man, but with whomever made (or didn't made) the page.
Yes, but there's a problem with the MAJORITY of contents, perhaps of
the majority of people writing manpages? It just seems
On Friday 06 February 2009 04:45:04 Stroller wrote:
On 5 Feb 2009, at 23:12, Joshua D Doll wrote:
... Also man pages lacking valuable information is the reason why
GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to using info!
I suspect the reason for this is far more about navigation
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:03, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
...
But sometimes, the amount of info to present is simply overwhelming.
To name just a couple of man pages that are really excellent I'd say
that the fvwm and bash ones are really good. But being rather long
they are better suited as reference
El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 7:57, Stroller escribió:
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:03, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
...
But sometimes, the amount of info to present is simply overwhelming.
To name just a couple of man pages that are really excellent I'd say
that the fvwm and bash ones are really good.
Joshua D Doll wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and
written. I feel they are so well written and informative that a new user
could read and follow what the doc is trying to convey.
I'll just quote Linux Hater here:
Write tons of documentation on complicated
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter
of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the
packages and the
El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 14:03 +0100, Momesso Andrea escribió:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter
of performance optimization
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:50AM -0430, Sebastián Magrí wrote:
[snip]
Often on gentoo related IRC chanels comes someone who asks why his
firefox-bin (or openoffice-bin or *-bin) runs faster than his
built-from-source firefox.
Usually chan's gurus answer that upstream packagers use
Sebastián Magrí wrote:
Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system
works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the
best for you.
I don't get that argument. I didn't learn how Linux or Unix works with
Gentoo. I didn't even find my prior
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 11:08, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
[...]
A big big advantage is that besides the huge number of packages
that we have, we also have dozens of overlays. [...] and some of them are
really bug.
QFT ;)
Ouch, I meant big, though that
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:31:26 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote:
Sure, I've used per-package optimizations myself in some particular
cases, but that's not the point.
A package manteiner *should* know better than an average user which
optimizations will tune better their own package.
But the user
On 2009-02-04, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
This thread is not complete without the obligatory link:
http://funroll-loops.info/
Brilliant! I really like this one:
To me, an extra 0.1% performance increase, even if I am only
imagining it to be faster, is certainly
On 2009-02-04, Jes?s Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es wrote:
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi?:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote:
I personally don't view Gentoo as a distro in the traditional sense. To
me, it's a build system, an app -
El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 14:31 +0100, Momesso Andrea escribió:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:50AM -0430, Sebastián Magrí wrote:
[snip]
Often on gentoo related IRC chanels comes someone who asks why his
firefox-bin (or openoffice-bin or *-bin) runs faster than his
built-from-source
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:25:49 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Except that what you build and maintain isn't a distro, it's
a single machine.
Why?
--
Neil Bothwick
WinErr 01B: Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error.
Next time you will get a penalty for that.
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes:
One *BIG* difference is when the GPUs on video cards are used
as co-processors on systems. ATI and Nv are working on making
general purpose C languages for programs to take advantage
of the power of the GPU. Look for Gentoo to beat
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribió:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote:
I personally don't view Gentoo as a distro in the traditional sense. To
me, it's a build system, an app - portage or paludis - and the devs that
make cool input files
With unit processors approaching up to 128 Cores on a single GPU I can
see why the guys at all those institutions want to put EL lights in
their big hawking 4 card SLI rigs?
That's like 1600 Cores on a single system, Even Blue Gene L only has
Dual Core PowerPC 440's, whith AMD's 4870 having 800
On 2009-02-04, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:25:49 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Except that what you build and maintain isn't a distro, it's
a single machine.
Why?
Do you distribute what you're building as a something for
others to use to install Linux?
On 2009-02-04, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes:
One *BIG* difference is when the GPUs on video cards are used
as co-processors on systems. ATI and Nv are working on making
general purpose C languages for programs to take
On Mittwoch 04 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter
of performance optimization but of
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
[...]
A big big advantage is that besides the huge number of packages
that we have, we also have dozens of overlays. [...] and some
of them are really bug.
QFT ;)
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:01:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If I wanted a learn Unix distro, I would be using Slackware :P
s/Slackware/Linux From Scratch/
That just teaches you to read and repeat the same commands over and over.
You learn about Linux by administering it, not installing it.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:19:17 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Except that what you build and maintain isn't a distro, it's
a single machine.
Why?
Do you distribute what you're building as a something for
others to use to install Linux? I don't, and none of the other
Gentoo users
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:31:26 Momesso Andrea wrote:
My question can be put like this: Do binary distro's per package
optimiziations override the benefit of having arch specific
optimiziations that gentoo allows?
That can only be answered with valid benchmarks on paper in front of you.
Hazen Valliant-Saunders hazenvs at gmail.com writes:
No they would never be useful for anything other then rendering
bouncing bobbies! ;)
Bouncing bobbies? Sound like a fraternity game for new recruits...
So Searching and Sorting, are documented to orders of magnitude
faster on GPU (SIMD)
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:59:44PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:31:26 Momesso Andrea wrote:
My question can be put like this: Do binary distro's per package
optimiziations override the benefit of having arch specific
optimiziations that gentoo allows?
That
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 7:17, Grant Edwards escribió:
On 2009-02-04, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Grant Edwards grante at visi.com writes:
Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's described as a system
similar to BSD ports where you build packages from source. The main
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 14:19, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Sebastián Magrà wrote:
Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system
works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the
best for you.
I don't get that argument. I didn't learn
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 16:25, Grant Edwards escribió:
On 2009-02-04, Jes?s Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es wrote:
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi?:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote:
I personally don't view Gentoo as a distro
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 14:19, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Sebastián Magrà wrote:
Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system
works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the
best for you.
I don't get that
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 17:19, Grant Edwards escribió:
On 2009-02-04, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:25:49 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Except that what you build and maintain isn't a distro, it's
a single machine.
Why?
Do you distribute
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 18:48, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 14:19, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Sebastián Magrà wrote:
Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux
system works, and really want to learn
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes:
One *BIG* difference is when the GPUs on video cards are used
as co-processors on systems. ATI and Nv are working on making
general purpose C languages for
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:48:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to
do all the work by yourself to install it. What you describe is
just the regular update/install process, which is simple enough
as you said.
It was very easy for
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:55:07 Momesso Andrea wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:59:44PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:31:26 Momesso Andrea wrote:
My question can be put like this: Do binary distro's per package
optimiziations override the benefit of
El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 22:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon escribió:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:48:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to
do all the work by yourself to install it. What you describe is
just the regular update/install
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Sebastián Magrí sebasma...@gmail.com wrote:
El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 22:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon escribió:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:48:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to
do all the work by yourself
Sebastián Magrí wrote:
The installation experience with the traditional method must be
mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is
deprecated...
That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not easy to
install. But since there are not enough devs left for the GUI
El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 7:07, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Sebastián Magrà wrote:
The installation experience with the traditional method must be
mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is
deprecated...
That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not
On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, masochists, live in
peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do
with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice]
There have been several attempts to
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
By the way, did I already said that anyone that can read can also
install Gentoo? Lost of people with no experience with linux did
it with very little or no help.
I used Mandrake 9.1 for a little while then tried to upgrade to 9.2. I
installed Gentoo the hard way
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, masochists, live in
peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do
with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice]
There have
Grant Edwards wrote:
Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's describe as a system
similar to BSD ports where you build packages from source.
The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get
better performance because all executables are optimized for
exactly the right instruction
Grant Edwards grante at visi.com writes:
Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's describe as a system
similar to BSD ports where you build packages from source.
The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get
better performance because all executables are optimized for
exactly
On 2009-02-04, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Grant Edwards grante at visi.com writes:
Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's described as a system
similar to BSD ports where you build packages from source.
The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get
better
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter
of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the
packages and the rolling release nature (I'm tired of major updates
every 6 months in the
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter
of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the
snip
I also get
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote:
I will mention that the performance optimizations for Gentoo mainly lie in
the kernel configuration (the binary distributions compile just about
everything you can imagine into their kernels), and in fine tuning the USE
flags,
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