Yeah Ive run Gentoo and to answer a few questions 1. its a bitch to install it makes Debian look like an installers dream 2. I didn't get that much of a speed increase ( definitely not 2 x ) and stability was just about the same as any decent distro. 3. 20% more speed in general and about 40% on boot (yeah Gentoo is one wicked setup if you hate long boots) 4. you need broadband its a real bandwidth hog and very addictive when it comes to keeping up to date. 5 lots of spare time to waste on fine tunning the install 6. the only major plus is when you have finished installing this beast everything else seems pathetically easy and your knowledge of were everything is is way above normal. The user will have to manually do just about everything, right from partitioning the hardisk to setting up network files and setting up X; if your no good with vim or emacs your screwed. 7. if you one of those people who like to have the newest software and it has to be source and anything more than 3 days old is a Dinosaur then Gentoo is for you, </sarcasm>ooh yeah and you built your own computer piece by piece and soldered in those little Night Rider style LED's by hand</sarcasm>.
Personaly I gave up on it after a while and swapped back to Mandrake/Debian .. Life is just too short for me and Gentoo. On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 23:35, James Gregory wrote: > > Incidently, I was reading a piece of... literature about the wonders of > gentoo. The writer claimed that compiling all his software with > aggressive optimization flags made his computer run about twice as fast > and use half the memory. Unfortunately my knowledge of compilers is > about 20 years old so I don't have a way to evaluate if it's > optimization that's doing that. But I'm interested - is anyone here > running gentoo? does it live up to the astonishing things I've heard > about it? > > James. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
