hi 3) Is there an easy way to build ALL the packages in slink from source?
i've heard about such idea(s) before. The real question is - do you need to rebuild ALL packages? I doubt rebuilding ls and such will do any difference. The only visible difference might be if you rebuild FEW critical packages/libs. Try to rebuild/reinstall K6 optimized: - kernel - glibc - X11 - netbase/netstd? after that i would be very grateful to hear about any speedup you discovered. OK